Title: Artifacts
Description: When you dig for the painful memories that won't go away, the relics of a man's life, you come away with Artifacts. Artifacts is the latest chapbook from Scott C. Holstad, a man who has made a shocking and powerful mark on the small press scene since he first appeared. Scott's work hangs with a sharp edge, whether he gives you his satirical and often hilarious perspective of being a refugee of the mental health system, or when he talks about his anger, writing with clouds of frustration and explosive revelations about his inner mind. Scott writes with one eye on the people around him who have suffered for his pains, the casualties of the craziness that lurks inside all of us. Artifacts is a book for the strangers and the survivors who populate the poems which have come from Holstad.
Subjects: poetry, pain, mental health, violence, regrets, memories, satire, dark humor, anger, survival, morality, confessional poetry, psychological horror, hate, cruelty
Places: Los Angeles, Knoxville TN, Phoenix
Time periods: 1990s