Mole's Pity
Will be published approx. on 1. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
219 pages
978-1-57366-229-1 (ISBN)
Description
When pity becomes power, nothing stays buried.
In Mole's Pity, Harold Jaffe delivers a fearless meditation on the fractures of contemporary life. Through a series of stark, unsettling narratives, Jaffe interrogates the machinery of culture—its obsessions, its violence, its relentless commodification of human experience. Each page pulses with urgency, challenging readers to question what lies beneath the surface of our mediated realities. This is literature as resistance: sharp, unflinching, and deeply humane. For those who crave writing that provokes thought and defies convention, Mole's Pity is not merely a book—it's an encounter with the raw nerve of the present moment.
In Mole's Pity, Harold Jaffe delivers a fearless meditation on the fractures of contemporary life. Through a series of stark, unsettling narratives, Jaffe interrogates the machinery of culture—its obsessions, its violence, its relentless commodification of human experience. Each page pulses with urgency, challenging readers to question what lies beneath the surface of our mediated realities. This is literature as resistance: sharp, unflinching, and deeply humane. For those who crave writing that provokes thought and defies convention, Mole's Pity is not merely a book—it's an encounter with the raw nerve of the present moment.
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Person
Harold Jaffe is a lapsed lit-prof who has spent most of the last decade sojourning on several continents, isthmuses. He has sighted trees and, beneath them, moss-like, sages. Their signals and fractured utterances he has transmitted into a kind of fiction, four separate volumes, and into verse called Freaks' Dreams. Shards have appeared in Poetry Northwest, the Beloit Poetry Journal, Confrontation, The New York Times, One, Dhara, Commonweal. Presently living near the Atlantic, he devotes his time to the contemplation of sea-wrack.