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Essay on Masks
Paperback
Publisher: Crooked Circle Press
Published: Mar 18 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Wolf Eberhardt's Essay on Masks is a study in intimacy and collapse. Moving fluidly between lyric intensity and philosophical play, these poems portray desire, grief, humor, memory, and myth with restless energy. The words are witness to the same persistent question: how do we remain human while everything is dissolving?
At once intimate and cosmological, ferocious and tender, this collection reads like a nervous system exposed-charged with desire, haunted by mortality, and sharpened by self-awareness. It is a book for readers who recognize that beauty is often found at the edge of danger, and that love and ruin share a border.
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