Description: "A singular vision of surreal violence and grotesque beauty, sung into story by a voice unlike any I've ever heard before, innocent and wise and comic and heart-breaking beyond belief. Patnaude has woven this hallucinatory, multimedia score from the imagery of B horror films, the language of poetry, and the experience of America's abandoned youth. In words the narrator uses to describe the music of his favorite metal band, First Aide Medicine 'is terrifying to the extreme, yet beneath the singer's garbled, gravelly voice there lie beautiful, primitive, racketyat times accidentalmelodies buried in the stacks and waves of distortion for those, that is, willing to risk their lives to enter the labyrinth.' Be warned: I didn't realize what I was risking by reading this book, and now I am hopelessly lost within it, haunting it as much as it haunts me." Jayson Iwen, 2010 judge of the Emergency Press International Book Contest, and author of Six Trips in Two Directions and The Momentary Jokebook

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