""A debut collection from a promising young poet, an oxymoronic cicatr;x offers inventive, gut punching poems...I'm already looking forward to his next book."" -Shanny Jean Maney Author of I Love Science! and co-founder of The Encyclopedia Show ""what's most enchanting about this debut collection is that it's wholly unafraid of its own crackling, visceral magic...as deeply interested in love as it is in loss. it knows that each of us contains great reservoirs of both sorrow & joy, but rather than lamenting that our happiness is always a little bit tinged with heartbreak, these poems ask us to celebrate the little fires that reside inside of us, the embers that can guide us through even our darkest nights. as heyne reminds us, "if you're reading this you and I are still alive." it's within this kind of insistent, open vein of devotion that an oxymoronic cicatr;x finds its exceptional alchemy. rest assured, heyne & kislych will leave you spellbound."" -Maggie Woodward Author of FOUND FOOTAGE