Publisher's Synopsis
Arteidolia Press 2022 In An Attic Palace Beneath a Slaughtered Sky is a twenty-five year journey beyond; beyond surfaces and stories told straight, beyond what the eyes see and the mind says. Greiner's poems are his want to go further. Purposeful language in itself is a confine. Wanting to annihilate this confine and come to a space beyond conclusion, this collection of conclusive uncertainties, caught in language, calls out in a Siren song for a rising beyond. This is a step on the road of a tongue seeking strangulation and brilliant transcendence. John Greiner's poems perform at the pace of floating just inches from the ground. The rhythms of stride take the reader for a ride along the avenues of knowing; references that feel like old friends. In a circular philosophy, Greiner's words remind the reader of how we came to poetry, stories and hope in the first place. - Kathleen Florence, poet & playwright. In an Attic Palace Beneath a Slaughtered Sky - Release Date: January 5, 2022, Arteidolia Press John Greiner is a poet, playwright, short fiction writer and visual artist who lives in New York City. Greiner's collections of poetry include Circuit (Whiskey City Press, 2020), Turnstile Burlesque (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2017), The Laundrymen (Wandering Head Press, 2016), Bodega Roses (Good Cop/Bad Cop Press, 2014), Modulation Age (Wandering Head Press, 2012), Shooting Side Glances (ISMs Press, 2011) and Relics From a Hell's Kitchen Pawn Shop (Ronin Press, 2010). Greiner's plays have been produced in New York City, Chicago and Gloucester, Massachusetts. His work in décollage is a motion towards a more transcendent poetic language and his collaborative pieces with photographer Carrie Crow has been shown in galleries, museums and public spaces in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Venice, Hamburg and Berlin.
