Time For My Generation To DIE
Earth Island, 2023
9/10
The poet and ballader E.D. Evans has a penchant for dark humor, morbid settings and clever observations, where her time in the New York punk scene of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s influences her craft across these 65 pages of verse.
The book is divided into 5 parts, where topics like Martha Stewart, fame, music and love, among many other subjects, are touched on with eloquence and descriptive prose. The wordplay flows smoothly, often rhyming, where vivid images via the linguistics and Natalie Woodson’s illustrations arrive in spades.
Evans speaks plenty of universal truths within these pages, in both personal and universally relatable ways, and it comes with a distinct grit and insight from the mind of someone who views the world through an artistic, iconoclastic lens.
A quick read that absorbs better the 2nd or even 3rd time through, I was very much reminded of Dan O’Mahoney’s Four Letter World, which is definitely a high compliment.