The Orange Spotlight

Angles of Disorder by Zachary C. Bush (BlazeVOX, July, 2009)

"There are children trapped inside my face!"

I have had this collection/novel by Zachary C. Bush on my desk for awhile, and it took me some time to figure out why I hadn't picked it up and read it. I think it was the word disorder that keep me from cracking the cover. The distance between order and disorder is extremely slim, and one I feel closing in on me often. Yet, I recently cracked the cover and beneath it found a world chaos that was not as scary as I had anticipated.

In Angles of Disorder, Bush creates through poetry what ultimately feels like a novel. Well, a novel in the loosest sense of the word. These poems link together through references to "The Others", and through the act of assigning feelings to object (Or maybe it's objects to feelings). This is the deconstruction of life. Days become objects or animals, dysfunction is everywhere, and it seems like the process of recoding it all was painful. Just as the poems connect there is also a connecting stick figure drawing that slowly disappears through out the book. It further stresses the breakdown of thought and humanity.

Angles of Disorder was released by BlazeVOX last July, and his latest collection, At Swan Decapitation will be released this month by VOX Press. His third book The Silence of Sickness, will be published in 2010 by Gold Wake Press (No Anchor Print Series)