Dr.Mephisto

Written as one extended sequence of poems, this collection follows Mephistopheles across eras and places. He sometimes watches events from a detached distance and sometimes joins in with brutal force, but he is always there where people are fighting, suffering, or toiling. Emery's experimental handling of language and form drives the work forward at a brisk pace, while its sharp political bite runs throughout. The tone shifts between bleak and darkly comic.