Filled with impassioned logic and musicality, John Sibley Williams' debut collection strives to control the uncontrollable by redefining the method of approach. In these compact poems, so edged in dark corners and the strenuous songs of beauty and identity, Williams establishes a unique world of contradictions and connections that bridge the foreign and the familiar. Moving through art and history, through apocalyptic visions and family, into and back out of the paradox of using language to express languagelessness, Controlled Hallucinations weaves universal themes and images with the basic...

Leading Edge has been published by students at Brigham Young University since 1980. It has been the launching point of acclaimed authors Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, and Dan Wells. This issue includes mystery and adventure, a reimagined fairy tale and a futuristic crime drama, a demon hunter and a magical seamstress. Contained in this volume are five short stories, three flash fiction stories, two poems, a book review, and an editorial. To find out more about Leading Edge, please visit leadingedgemagazine.com and follow us on Facebook.