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Mira corpora5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Jordan Rothacker’s ebullient, entrancing, playful, linguistically sensuous My Shadow Book is a triumph of narrative and structural inventiveness. It’s many potential books in one, waiting only for a reader to bring it to life.” – Jeff Jackson, author of Mira Corpora and Destroy All Monsters Concealed within is a clever Mobius strip narrative and an invitation to a secret society comprised of history’s most subversive artists. It’s a fascinating collage of quotations, diaries, drawings, aphorisms, confessions, short fictions, and political manifestos. Science fiction or memoir poetry or prose art manifesto or political call to action wisdom or nonsense? What is Maawaam’s Shadow Book but what lies between, what lies in the shadows. ![]() What does Rothacker’s discovery mean for our world? Will Maawaam’s cryptic fragments, like the Rosetta Stone, provide a key to understanding this ancient and powerful tradition? Rothacker shares his discovery of the notebooks of Maawaam, a Shadow Man and member of the secret society of Shadow Men and Women. What if Shelley was right, but his understanding didn’t go far enough? What if there was an ancient, interdimensional, supernatural cabal that strives to direct human progress, that has worked tirelessly in the darkness to save our world in spite of our enlightened penchant for destruction? Percy Shelley once remarked, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” ![]()
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