K. Silem Mohammad is the author of Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003), A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004), Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), and The Front (Roof Books, 2009). His poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. He is co-editor (with Richard Greene) of the essay collections The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless (Open Court, 2006) and Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize with a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch (Open Court, 2007). Mohammad edits the poetry journal Abraham Lincoln with Anne Boyer.
I'm one of those people who'd five-star a transcription of Mohammad just breathing, but as dazzling as the books he's written since can be, the knotty, measured music of this first collection, humming with form and mystery, is the one I go back to most often. The craft floors, but the music's in the hovering.