Withered + Sere Voice Balén draws from years of

Balén draws from years of firsthand observations

From these documents spills the chronicle of a race of people at once more than human yet kin to beasts

Billeh Nickerson is the author of three previous poetry collections

and a request he can't refuse

and gay and lesbian studies

Withered + Sere Voice Balén draws from years ofOnce upon a time, humanity could no longer contain the rage that swelled within, and the world ended in a wave of fire. One hundred years later, in the wasteland formerly known as America, a broken man who goes only by the name of Cavalo survives. Purposefully cutting himself off from what remains of civilization, Cavalo resides in the crumbling ruins of the North Idaho Correctional Institution. A mutt called Bad Dog and a robot on the verge of