The arcanes

"Since 2006, when we joyously published Jack Hirschmann's The Arcanes, he has been prolific in continuing to compose such poems, and so we're ecstatic to published The Arcanes (2006-2016), comprising 190 new Arcanes written for the most part in the past decade. In that same decade, Hirschman has been the Poet Laureate of San Francisco (2006-2009) ... The Arcanes (2006--2009) also features, along with poems rooted in revolutionary communist visions combined with Jack's often kabbalistic insights, some Arcanes composed with comic and liberating intent in a language he calls his "purnography" written in avalanches of puns to relieve the techo-tragic suffering of humanity throught the corporate fascism of our times..."--Front flap.