Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon Matt Rader composing catchy tunes in the

composing catchy tunes in the key of fear and desire

he speaks to an intangibility of sense

–Ray Robertson

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As "Pa's Big Green Book" puts it

Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon Matt Rader composing catchy tunes in theDescription Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, the follow up to Ray Hsu's award winning first collection, Anthropy, is the second book in a prospective trilogy that explores the "grammar of personhood." Whereas Anthropy approached the human condition through the prism of first , second and third person perspectives, Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon uses the grammatical concepts of singular and plural as grid lines to chart contemporary life and concerns