This poetry collection explores the confusion that youth feel as the world sped up and turned digital faster than they could comprehend. It also explores the alienation felt by a group of teenagers as they face adolescence, mental illness, and turn more and more towards drugs and addiction to cope with their emotions. Through poetry it communicates the pains, sorrows, highs and lows of growing up in the 21st century.

Impersonating Emotion is the third full poetry collection by Canadian author Jack Blare. It is an autobiographical and poetic account of coming of age while struggling with mental illness in an increasingly impersonal age.

People & Concrete explores the trials, tribulations, struggles with mental health, addiction and alienation experienced by those growing up in an ever-evolving and impersonal digital age.