Dying Scarlet jaz papadopoulos And for solvers who dig

And for solvers who dig a challenge

--Andrew Vaisius

they're destroying the very things that give us life in the first place

"[U]ndeniably fruitious and wild

5 in - 168 pp

Dying Scarlet jaz papadopoulos And for solvers who digDescription In a letter to his brothers in 1818, John Keats remarked on a curious expression in vogue among his friends: "they call drinking deep dying scarlet." The poems in this collection, inspired by Keats' misspelling of "dyeing," explore the ways in which we drink deep from life, searching for beauty and passion despite a melancholy awareness of our own mortality. Poised between praise and lamentation, Dying Scarlet moves from the experiences of