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Book: Midnight Road by Jason Kessler
categories: Book, Travel, Death, Depression, Existentialism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, PoetryJason Kessler

When I returned home to America a familiar cycle of loneliness & claustrophobia set in. I wrote most of the poems in Midnight Road during this period. Some are intensely personal reflections on loss: loss of faith, loss of naivete, loss of love etc. ("The Victory", for instance"). In others I transferred these feelings into stories. There's an astronaut searching for meaning as he suffocates in outer space ("Annihilus"), a burned out single mother desperate for love, for a drug, for anything to take away her pain ("Where Have All the Good Men Gone?") & the reflections of a condemned criminal awaiting execution ("Lamentations of the Damned"). Finally I end the collection on a more uplifting note celebrating a city that has fully embraced debauchery ("Bangkok").
The title of the book comes from a poem within the collection, "Midnight Road". It also reflects my feeling that the book could represent the thoughts a tormented mind during a long, lonely drive through the dead of night.
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Reviews for Midnight Road:
• "Heartfelt and gritty, poems dealing with the disappointment of real life...I can recommend it to all fans of Bukowski or any realist with a heart."
• "Great collection of poems. Jason Kessler's lens of the emotional pain and vulnerability of life, love, and the dark side of cultures with depth and honesty. Definitely get this book!"
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