As long as we're here : poems /

As Long as We’re Here is an off-key anthem, a funhouse mirror held up to our dumpster fire era. Chronically online, distracted and distracting, with too many browser tabs open at once, attentive to everything and focused on nothing, Brouwer delights in the late capitalist absurdities of sleeping app...

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Main Author: Brouwer, Joel, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tribeca, New York : Four Way Books, [2026].

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