Eschaton Life in print
This was organized and designed during the holiday break in December of 2021. It was done so without a great deal of initial thought or intention, but has turned into one of the most highly focused expression of who I am I’ve put together in the last 50 years. While I am extremely pleased with the ‘end product’ here, this work has been challenging and healing to orchestrate.
This limited ‘supporters edition’ collection of poems, prose, spells, symbols, and schematics is a self-imposed attempt to pay respects and realign my creative expression with my current station in life. It also strives to address the environmental, social and political crises that have come to dominate our existence.
The 13 pieces included are recent, most put down during the pandemic. There is intentionality in the mix of metaphysical/visionary work and political/abolitionist commentary. The 13 images included are culled from decades of work. While self-referential this collection also aspires to respect influences, the people we live with, the spirits of the land, and the elemental forces I intuit. Questions of identity, belief, time and purpose emerge with race and place prominent throughout. Raising a ‘white’ family in the largest Black city in the US has made issues once distant more relevant.
Contents include:
- An Offering
- Babbling Belief
- A Clarificational
- Bloodlines Across Space Time
- Looking Back and Forth
- Misanthropy Embarrassed
- I am a Dance Hall at Dawn
- Ode to the Bassheads
- The Crust and the Glitch
- Is it Time, Yet?
- Time Machine
- The Lights Flickering, Vichy Detroit
- As Goes Detroit, So Goes the World
- Hungry Ghosts
- Gratitude
Eden Bloom is a 50-something heathen householder, a proud father and partner, a professional writer and graphic designer. He’s been playing music and making art since the late 80s. Eden has been blessed to study with mystics, masters, and mad wo/men from many paths. These days he strives toward an active abolition of racism, vulture capitalism, and corporate domination. He plays with the kids, grows food and maps satellites, planets and stars to relax.
Note: This collection includes poignant graphic references to blood and violence. A photo of scarification may challenge some readers.
Eden Bloom, Eschaton Life — Supporters Edition
7” x 7” 36 page, union printed, saddle stapled book
Hand augmented, numbered and signed edition limited to 50 copies.
Includes a 3” die cut vinyl sticker and promotional ephemera.
$23 (or more) Detroit local.
Add $5 postage in the US, email for International Orders.
Proceeds from this Supporters Edition will go toward publishing a larger run. Many of the works included in this edition are available for free and to share on eschatonlife.com.
Preorder now for shipping in mid-February https://www.eschatonlife.com/book/
