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A cosmic collaboration between Science Fiction & Fantasy Association Grand Master Linda D. Addison and visionary versifier Jamal Hodge, Everything Endless, sheds brilliant light in dark times. With themes of creation, cosmos, the macroscopic and the microscopic, this collection tells the story of life itself and expresses fervent hope for a more creative future. Working in conversation, with alternating poems, the authors blend their unique voices and styles into a symphony of startling images. Never forgetting their roots, these Black poets bring the rhythm of call and response alive across the page with the laser focus of 10,000 suns.
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What They’re Saying
“How fortunate we are to be gifted with stunning new poetry by a dynamic duo whose individual strengths unite to heal us all.…a truly captivating exploration of our existence, real consciousness, and humanity’s unique place in the vast cosmos of all that lives. Through a gorgeous blend of science fiction and lyrical poetry, this collection delves into the deeper questions of reality, from the Big Bang’s fiery birth to the quiet whispers of black hole blues.”—Sheree Renée Thomas, Three-time World Fantasy Award winner and author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
“Everything you need to understand the depth, complexity, beauty, and terror of dark poetry. Jamal Hodge and Linda D. Addison blend their voices and insight for this elegant collection. Highly recommended!” —Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of The Dragon in Winter and editor of Shadows & Verse
“Imagine a poetry collection so profound as to encompass all the questions you’ve ever experienced about existence, reality, time travel and the ultimate meaning of it all. Well, here it is, fantastic and simple and wonderfully composed by two extraordinary poets, Linda Addison and Jamal Hodge. There’s ‘Cupid Invasion,’ ‘Black Hole Diving,’ ‘The Beat Goes On/Off,’ ‘Colony,’ and many more poems that will jar your conscience, leave you with a different perspective of life and humanity.”—Marge Simon, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner
“Poets Linda D. Addison and Jamal Hodge wrestle with questions of cosmology, metaphysics, and our place in the universe. Their complementary views on black holes, matter, and mind glint like stars against a dark backdrop.”—Mary Soon Lee, SFPA Grand Master and author of How to Navigate Our Universe
“… an ambitious collaboration engaging big ideas with compact verses, sprawling from modest corners to the outermost regions we imagine today. Sometimes mathematical, sometimes whimsical, at times terrifying and profound, this is a collection to be read closely with appreciation. It is a fine model of what is possible with speculative poetry today. With no small sense of hope, we haven’t heard the last from these two in the cosmos.”—Bryan Thao Worra, author of American Laodyssey, past Science Fiction Poetry Association President
“I was utterly absorbed by this mind-blowing, mind-expanding, mind-altering world of all possibilities.”—Kaaron Warren, author of The Underhistory
“This is the kind of poetry collection that makes you wish you wrote poetry—but luckily, Linda D. Addison and Jamal Hodge already do. Ethereal, otherworldly and mind-blowing!”—Tananarive Due, L.A. Times Book Prize winner, The Reformatory
“Everything Endless reads like a call-and-response for the spirit between the visionary Jamal Hodge and the legendary Linda Addison. An odyssey of poetry and rhythm that echo through the quantum states of creation. Their language charts a journey from stardust to black holes to the mysteries of an unfolding universe. Across infinite dimensions.”—Maurice Broaddus, afrofuturist author of the Astra Black Trilogy: Sweep of Stars, Breath of Oblivion, and A City Dreaming
“Everything Endless is kinetic, a textual Betelgeuse as luminous as it is cautionary. In this collaboration of unassuming brilliance, Jamal Hodge and Linda D. Addison achieve a graceful ‘twinning’ imbued with opulence, tempo and bravura, an infinite dance on moving edges. Together, these gifted poets swallow us into the knowing/unknowing of an endless and ever-shifting cosmos.”—Eugen Bacon, British Fantasy Award winner and Philip K. Dick Award finalist
“Everything Endless is a potent, passionate, powerfully unfolding pas de deluxe demonstrating the bedazzling possibilities of poetic engagement with cosmic considerations. This creative collaboration journeys from the empyrean to the earthly, divining shifting reality’s rogue manifestations, shifting through densities to provide insight-rich evocations of the transcendent and enduring.”—Akua Lezli Hope, SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry