Mechanical Monkeys

"Strangeness and familiarity co-mingle and collide in these visionary poems, informed by both a pop culture sensibility and a masterful grasp of the texture and nuance of human speech. Mechanical Monkeys is anything but robotic – real love, anger, sorrow and delight course through Epp’s work like life’s very blood, captured in street names and everyday details, making the poems as universal as the orbits of planets and as specific as a drop of rain evaporating on hot cement. Leonard Cohen once said that cracks are how the light gets in. Epp’s deep cuts into the Veil of the Ordinary flood our senses with the light of revelation." – Grammy nominee Barry Alfonso, author of A Voice of the Warm: The Life of Rod McKuen