Tombstone Confidential is a satire on mortality and contemporary culture, grounded in today's ingrained disregard for the relatively imminent approach and finality of one's death. An essentially comic work, at the same time the book is one long memento mori, filling a loosely narrative framework sequenced as a wandering journey across the United States. The poem unfolds panoramically through a wide variety of setting and reference, as it embodies the aesthetic position set forth by the author's Manifesto of Vandalism: that in today's diverse and chaotic culture, the most...