Ken Smith

"Wormwood is the anti-Christ, his dad is Satan and his demonic powers help him fit right into New York. His best friend is Jesus, a mentally challenged man who just isn't performing many miracles these days. The pesky Armageddon is coming right up, and it doesn't look like Pope Jacko is going to be any help in stopping it. Ennis drags the whole world into the gutter with this trademark razor-sharp dialogue, biting wit, and the stunning art of Jacen Burrows, all in full-color"--Page 4 of cover

Perky, green-eyed Sara Connolly, psychic consultant for the Chicago PD finds out life repeats life when she agrees to consult for the FBI on a high profile abduction case. She discovers some of her visions are of a similar situation, only one vision took place a hundred years before. She hopes that using her past life experience will help her guide the FBI special agent Matt Riser in recovering the present missing girl before she is murdered.

"A recent study shows that poets are thirty times more likely to suffer from depressive illness than the rest of the population. Editors Smith and Sweeney state in their Introduction that: "It is the unconscious that drives poetry, the jumps and sudden lurches that forge new connections with things not connected before, new ways of seeing. And it is also the unconscious where the voices of the irrational lurk". Witty, brittle, serene, remote, here is poetry that is testament to the transforming power of the imagination, poetry that catches the reader in the full glare of its light, challenging the isolation, stigma, and myths of mental illness. Beyond Bedlam features 140 poems by over fifty poets, including John Bunyan, Christopher Smart, John Clare, T. S. Eliot, Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Emily Dickinson, Anne Sexton, Ezra Pound, C. K. Williams, Theodore Roethke, Paul Durcan, Ian Duhig, and John Berryman."- from the publisher.