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Without Looking too Far was written to shock and to slap. It was written to forever destroy the notion that we, as Americans, live in the best of all possible worlds. Its poems tell a story, a story describing a hopeful beginning, an inevitably splintered existence, and a present and future fraught with the plagues of war, greed, and hollowness. In all, the book is to be a forceful awakening, a scream in the night, that at last smears the facade of perfection we have become accustomed to. Before we can change, we must first confront our problems, and it is this book that tells of these...

Aldous Huxley foresaw a world where the line between human beings and machines is increasingly blurred. His "Brave New World," a masterpiece of utopian-dystopian fiction, portrays such a world: a place that is no-place for the human ideals of suffering and pain upheld by John, the protagonist of the novel. Instead, humans are conditioned to be non-human, soma-drugged machines whose sole sources of gratification and pleasure are physical, emotional, and sensual superficialities of feeling. These two identities (the human and the machine) interact in Huxley's novel, revealing the endangered...