

This might be for the best - it would be mortifying if he read the poem and didn’t like it.) (After the chapbook was published, I sent a message to the band’s singer asking if he would want a copy, but I never heard anything back from him. That said, this chapbook does have a sestina, “Abraxas,” that is in part a riff on lyrics from the band Baroness, who we both admire. The band Earth is probably my favorite for this. I'm sure I was listening to a lot of other stuff, too, but it's impossible to say what.Ĭhris: In general, I write while listening to instrumental music.

Looking at the poems in Dictionnaire Infernal I see references to Skinny Puppy, Big Black and the theme song for The Karate Kid Part II by Peter Cetera, but that was probably Chris. Mark: This is a hard question to answer, because I listen to music more or less constantly and I listen pretty widely (Bill Corbett once told me I have "big ears"). You can read a poem from the chapbook here, an interview with the authors below, and download the collection here and below.ĭid you write this collection to any kind of music? With the close of Empty Set earlier this, we have partnered up with ESP and are offering the chapbook as a free ebook. DICTIONNAIRE INFERNAL is a co-authored poetry collection by Chris McCreary and Mark Lamoureux and was originally published by Empty Set Press on Halloween 2017.
