Wildcat Dreams in the Death Light—Reagan M. Sova

“…[a] beautiful multi-colored, multi-vocal, multi-sentimented tapestry… This is a very, very special book… It’s incredible that any human was able to pull off something like this in 2022. Do not deprive yourself of the experience of Wildcat Dreams in the Death Light.” — Leaf by Leaf Wildcat Dreams in the Death Light is an incantatory work of narrative poetry. Infused with hobo melancholy, Jewish lore, bloodshed, and hilarity, this epic poem is nothing short of a contemporary masterpiece. Set in 1910s America, Wildcat Dreams in the Death Light traces young Mort Sloman’s odyssey to honor his jockey uncle—the only dead man ever to have won a horse race. But before Mort can organize a worthy funeral, he must acquire “the Locksmith keys”—a form of esoteric knowledge beyond the understanding of even graybeard rabbis. Undeterred, Mort sets out across the United States with a tree knife and a guitar in order to uncover this mystical secret. In the process, he joins a circus and falls in love