Colin Keating

Dog Tao Colin Keating

The poems in this collection look over the Desert of the Real into the abyss of American pop culture and ask: what's the point, really? Deploying both formal and informal styles, these poems interrogate the authority of identity and the mosaic-like pieces of shared cultural detritus that we use to find meaning in a nihilistic age. Also, there are jokes."Dog Tao" is both a philosophy and an anti-philosophy. It will change you, and, perhaps dumbly, for the better.