Overview

Insects and Innuendoes isn't just a book--here, the words are self-aware. It begins as a collection of surreal poems but quickly spirals into something stranger: an autotheoretical labyrinth where consciousness loops, time loses direction, and perception gets stuck on an Escherian train. What unfolds is a metaphysical experiment disguised as literature: a nonlinear fabric of thought, stitched with quantum uncertainty and mythic unease. Beneath its syllabic skin, existential tension and psychological dissonance pulse. A paraliterary protagonist--distorted by memory and metaphor--winds through poetic portals as semantics mutate, syntax metastasizes, and pragmatics trigger the pain of temporality. In this Mobius strip of identity and illusion, the reader becomes part of the mechanism: co-dreamer, co-decoder, and conspirator in the text's collapse. And inevitably, in helping its captive escape, becomes the site of re-entry--into the neural meadows of the vulnerable mind.

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""Insects and Innuendoes is a bold, genre-blurring collection whose rhythmic cadence and linguistic play evoke the energy of rap, while exploring existential depths. Through cryptic alliterations, eerie imagery, and layered cycles, Gergo Sastyin creates a self-reflexive poetic world. The repeated use of 'the' in poem titles suggests a poetry of defining the indefinite--a 'metaphorical journey' at times reminiscent of Poe. Readers will be drawn into its strange, resonant landscape--challenged, moved, and compelled to return."" --Barış Yılmaz, Assistant Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary ""Beware, fellow reader, when you open the gates of this thin book. What first seems to be 'nothing but mere words in a strange story'--about a stranger? his family? his consciousness?--turns out to be a whirlpool pulling you inside a whole broad and dynamic world. The best you can do is let yourself go with it, as it safely guides you through a journey of self-awareness."" --Balázs Szőllőssy, Poet and Literary Translator ""What if you fed epic, ode, and elegy through an atom splitter? Gergo Sastyin re-fleshes the shattered body of verse from a bug-toes perspective. Insects and Innuendoes builds from the neural level of language and releases a surfeit of words and images. While the flow surges forward, each syllable creates a slap-back or stands resonating, engendering moments both weighty and wait-a-minute."" --Jeffrey Howlett, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Health and Technology University, Turkey

Author Information

Gergo Sastyin is a Hungarian-born poet, translator, and data analyst with a degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Tokyo. His writing draws from his interdisciplinary background and experiences living in Japan, the United States, Turkey, Spain, and North Macedonia. He has worked across academic research, language education, literary translation, and exploratory coding and design. This is his debut experiment in metaphysical verse.

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