Rauan Klassnik was born in South Africa and moved to the United States when he was thirteen. For many years he traded collectibles, cards, beanie babies, and the like. He then spent many important years in Mexico and now lives in Kirkland, Washington with his wife Edith. He is the author of Holy Land, also published by Black Ocean, and the chapbooks Ringing (Kitchen Press) and The Sea (Mud Luscious Press).

“In the wound of a stabbed cosmos, Rauan Klassnik’s moon, kin to Plath’s moon bald and wild, bucks against despair. Anytime we devour the queen, we will be forced to vomit her back up, a clean saint out of our foaming mouths. A pretty swell in the music. We’re not afraid of the cinema, even though it houses all our night-mares. We’re not afraid to die. Marble, Tequila, Rotted, Flapping. The myth of biological sex, the myth of biological stability [l]ike cathedral meat. Wrapped in a thin red towel.” —Danielle Pafunda

Rauan Klassnik was born in South Africa and moved to the United States when he was thirteen. For many years he traded collectibles, cards, beanie babies, and the like. He then spent many important years in Mexico and now lives in Kirkland, Washington with his wife Edith. He is the author of Holy Land, also published by Black Ocean, and the chapbooks Ringing (Kitchen Press) and The Sea (Mud Luscious Press).

“In the wound of a stabbed cosmos, Rauan Klassnik’s moon, kin to Plath’s moon bald and wild, bucks against despair. Anytime we devour the queen, we will be forced to vomit her back up, a clean saint out of our foaming mouths. A pretty swell in the music. We’re not afraid of the cinema, even though it houses all our night-mares. We’re not afraid to die. Marble, Tequila, Rotted, Flapping. The myth of biological sex, the myth of biological stability [l]ike cathedral meat. Wrapped in a thin red towel.” —Danielle Pafunda

Rauan Klassnik was born in South Africa and moved to the United States when he was thirteen. For many years he traded collectibles, cards, beanie babies, and the like. He then spent many important years in Mexico and now lives in Kirkland, Washington with his wife Edith. He is the author of Holy Land, also published by Black Ocean, and the chapbooks Ringing (Kitchen Press) and The Sea (Mud Luscious Press).

“In the wound of a stabbed cosmos, Rauan Klassnik’s moon, kin to Plath’s moon bald and wild, bucks against despair. Anytime we devour the queen, we will be forced to vomit her back up, a clean saint out of our foaming mouths. A pretty swell in the music. We’re not afraid of the cinema, even though it houses all our night-mares. We’re not afraid to die. Marble, Tequila, Rotted, Flapping. The myth of biological sex, the myth of biological stability [l]ike cathedral meat. Wrapped in a thin red towel.” —Danielle Pafunda