Metaphysics and social critiques clash and blend in John Sibley Williams' As One Fire Consumes Another and Anatoly Moloktov’s Synonyms for Silence.
As One Fire Consumes Another transcends beyond the boundaries of family, history, country, and beyond the body’s tragedies. It is a collection of surrealist visions and social insights that meet, wrestle, and revitalize with each other in a way that challenges, changes, and impacts readers.
Synonyms for Silence traverses a terrain of terror and wonder. These sharp, brief lyrics and prose poems subject the world to ethical and metaphysical scrutiny, examining the familiar as well as the unknowable aspects of human existence and contrasting our transient chemical reality with our ability to manifest meaning. Through his use of potent, sometimes perplexing metaphors and vivid, often surreal imagery, Molotkov places readers in the moment of choice, of truth, of suffering, and honors it with tenderness, offering solace through shared humanity.