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Darius McCaskey is an award-winning author, essayist, and poet from Rockford, Illinois. His previous work includes Angst & Wrath, a collection of his early poetry, as well as editing and supplemental writing for the Contagion role-playing game. Mr. McCaskey has been featured multiple times in Voices, the literary magazine of Rock Valley College (where Darius is pursuing his undergraduate degree).


In winter, our lives rearrange.


The light shifts


and we scratch away our mange.


In winter, our days shrink.


The light shifts


and we have nary a moment to think.


In winter, our pain expands.


The light shifts


and we struggle to meet demands.


In winter, our hope grows.


The light shifts


and we hear echoes of barbeques in the snows.


In winter, our hearts melt.


The light shifts


and we learn to love the hands we...

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Angst and Wrath
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The Shadow (Literature & Fiction)
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Description: A particularly vivid nightmare.
Angst & Wrath (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated Aug 06, 2010 06:30am
Description: Angst and Wrath collects the early poetry of Darius McCaskey. Written between 1990 and 2000, this volume contains over three dozen tempestuous poems about angst, love, identity, despair, spirituality, and wrath. Mr. McCaskey lays bare his raw teenage emotion with blunt, unforgiving language and a unique willingness to explore structure and syntax. Angst and Wrath: The Collected Early Works of Darius McCaskey is the definitive introduction to the earliest writing of this singular American poet.

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