Bøker av Jack Blare

Stories of alienation and addiction told through the lens of a Canadian poet on the autism spectrum. The universe requires entropy, or chaos, to keep expanding, for the earth to spin, the seasons to set in and the sun to rise. The Atrophy of Entropy would be the end of the living universe. This is about the decline of Western society, and humanity in general. The oversimplification of the abstract by social media mobs, the censorship of free expression and the struggle to survive in a world without reason, where ignorance is valued over intellect and the emotional has overwhelmed the rational.

This poetry collection explores the confusion that youth feel as the world sped up and turned digital faster than they could comprehend. It also explores the alienation felt by a group of teenagers as they face adolescence, mental illness, and turn more and more towards drugs and addiction to cope with their emotions. Through poetry it communicates the pains, sorrows, highs and lows of growing up in the 21st century.

People & Concrete explores the trials, tribulations, struggles with mental health, addiction and alienation experienced by those growing up in an ever-evolving and impersonal digital age.

Carcinogeneration tells some of the stories of these troubled times through poetry, of becoming an adult in a world evolving too fast to keep up with, all the while struggling to avoid the pitfalls of addiction, depression, disease and death. It is a chronicle of the loss of childhood innocence and disillusionment with an increasingly impersonal and uncaring society.

Impersonating Emotion is the third full poetry collection by Canadian author Jack Blare. It is an autobiographical and poetic account of coming of age while struggling with mental illness in an increasingly impersonal age.