The second book in the Mark Lanegan/Wesley Eisold poetry trilogy and the follow up to the acclaimed Plague Poems. YEAR ZERO - A WORLD WITH NO FLOWERS is the second book in the Lanegan/Eisold trilogy and the follow up to PLAGUE POEMS. Each author contributes 23 poems. Resurrection poems written with vitriol and irreverence in the middle space between life and death. The authors look forward and backward and inside and out. Poetry. Music. Art.
Mark Lanegan (born November 25, 1964 in Ellensburg, Washington) was an American rock musician and songwriter. Lanegan began his music career in the 1980s. In 1985, he became the vocalist for grunge group Screaming Trees; the group broke up in 2000. Lanegan would start a low-key solo career, but in 2004 Lanegan released his big breakthrough album Bubblegum. In addition to leading the The Gutter Twins, Lanegan has also been involved in other musical projects, including hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age, longterm collaborations with Isobel Campbell; and undertaken some surprisingly eclectic collaborations, such as co-writing and providing vocals for "Black River" by the electronic outfit, Bomb the Bass. He also lent his vocal talent to the highly regarded album, "Above", by supergroup Mad Season.
“It’s just as well that I am stranded In a foreign country, overstayed, my legal welcome, head down, hiding out and unable to leave for not being allowed to get back in It’s always the same story with guys like me always pulling some shady underhanded bullshit always driving Sideways In Reverse.”
3.5. By far the best of the three. The first few Mark poems are some of his best. Wesley’s we’re a miss for me this time around (he had some gems in Plague Poems though.)