Makeshift Press’ first release of full-length poetry is now available in paperback and eBook! Find out more information and order your copy here. Additionally, check out Xi Draconis Books’ interview with the author.
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Eclecticism defines the work of prolific author Joseph D. Reich. His upcoming release, The Trouble with Authority, is a cross-genre exploration plumbing the depths of human growth and development. He leaves no stone unturned, touching upon family dysfunction, abnormal psychology, parapsychology, existentialism, linguistics, and the psycho-dynamics of the fragile human condition. The absurdity of America’s increasingly nihilistic social landscape is Reich’s poetic tapestry. His missives are equally tinted by philosophy and sociology, creating a surrealistic guide that is sure to strike a chord with both cynics and optimists, or simply anyone—which is to say everyone—leading lives of “quiet desperation.”