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"The allure of the whimsy meets the tragedy--as was the flight of Icarus, and as is the skydiver's lifestyle of ""toil & suave / adrenaline & repent."" In his new collection of poems, Blair Hamelink portrays a life in the sky, blending passion and woe into lyric velocity. With particular desperation and spinal ache, the speaker of these poems is looking for an escape from the ""angel-factory,"" where skydivers have been ""jovially flung, dealt Pocket Aces / & an itch for that miniscule velocity on the cheek,"" but are now, forced to face a consequence. In these reflections, there are questions of worth toward a sport that fantasizes the superfluous flight--where, in a changing climate, skydivers are ""guilty of tumult"" and ""imitating the immortal."" Alongside those questions, this book conjures up mythic and real figures who have contributed to skydiving, such as: Icarus, the Rebel Angels, Napoleon, Moloch, Newton, and some Dark-Vowelled Birds. As Blair writes in his preface, this book is a nod toward Paradise Lost--John Milton's epic poem, depicting the fall of man."

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"Blair Hamelink was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has lived in the United States for 14 years where he works as a skydiving instructor. Blair has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Southern New Hampshire University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing and poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He is the author of the chapbook, ""Ill Weathers & Other Fates"" (Quillkeepers Press, 2024). He has also been published in Bombay Gin Literary Journal, and by Kavyayantra Press. He lives in Colorado with his dog."

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