The Otherground is a vast terrestrial expanse. It encompasses most all of the biosphere that lies beyond the total annexation of the triune world. It is that marginalized region where those exiled from the first, second, and third worlds go to get some thinking done, some soul-searching done, some work done. It is, by default, the fourth world: a world of intellect, of ethics, and of labor wherein the head, the heart, and the hands coexist in mutual respect and interdependence - and where the disenfranchised can go to openly eschew the megalomaniacal mandates of the mainstream. The author,...

Lyrics by Joseph Nicks Born in Detroit just a few years before he started school, the author has survived mostly by "not quitting his day job." "That never really worked out for me.," he states, though we're not really sure how he means that. He has spent most of his years studying life as a biologist, contemplating death as a poet, and searching in vain for a third alternative. He currently resides in a small town in the Mojave Desert.