Poetry. The winds from a nuclear blast fuse together a random array of body parts to create a shambling, formless, yet self-aware being who haunts the past, present, and future of a burnt-out, post-nuclear wasteland. Ed Steck's THE NECRO-LUMINESCENCE OF PINK MIST brings us a soft-focus monster movie in the form of a fractured lyric poem, the story of trauma, loss, and memory as mediated by a hideous thing-that-should-not-be slouching its way through fantasy and reality alike. With language by turns horrific, violent, and austerely meditative, THE NECRO-LUMINESCENCE OF PINK MIST is the undead exploitation film Ozu never made, and that the world is finally ready for.

The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist

Literature & Fiction

Steck, Ed

Poetry

Skeleton Man

Ed Steck's A PLACE BEYOND SHAME is a harrowing, original, and endlessly surprising book. Ed Steck's A PLACE BEYOND SHAME is a long-form poetic exploration of autobiographical trauma. APBS is an excavation of memory linked to topography, site, and sight: the bleak expanse of plagued rural landscapes; addiction and terror; the house or the home; and a personal archive of horror, adult, and exploitation films. APBS follows a father and a son transform into Ghoul and Son of Ghoul over the course of dubbing films to tape, loitering in the woods searching for UFOs, and the shock and horror of secrecies hidden behind the walls of the everyday. If when you are reading this book and the horrors become too real, repeat to yourself: it's only a book, it's only a book, it's only a book... "Ed Steck's A PLACE BEYOND SHAME is a harrowing, original, and endlessly surprising book. shapeshifting in our hands as we read it, it is as scary and wondrous as the horror films it not only references, but writes into itself. The horror genre has long been a space to explore the terrors of childhood, the way a parent can become a ghoul, to finally confess, in a scream not a whimper, all the secret things we've hidden under the bed. this book reminds me it's in the darkness, not the light, that we finally face ourselves."--Kate Durbin, author of Hoarders &#65279;and E! Entertainment. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Hybrid. Art.

A Place Beyond Shame

History & Criticism

Wonder

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Composed in part from technical military intelligence text, Ed Steck's THE GARDEN: SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT FOR ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION is a formally complex representation of cultural brain damage, the damage left by war in language and thought.

The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation

Ugly Duckling Presse

Poetry. AN INTERFACE FOR A FRACTAL LANDSCAPE is an exploration of potential networking between organic life and digitally recreated nature on a virtual terrain. Taking its cues from a variety of media, including concrete poetry, artists' books, science fiction, nature poetry, and information science, the book follows the experience of an inorganic life form attempting to recreate an organic relationship between organism and landscape on an outmoded server in the era of post-anthropocene collapse. Features: slime molds, cat avatars, organic toads, digital nature, hollow mountains, water textures, archival crawler units, warm baths, interactive maps, inventory management, and poetry.

An Interface for a Fractal Landscape

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Books by Steck, Ed

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The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist

A Place Beyond Shame

The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation

An Interface for a Fractal Landscape