A Bloody Theory of Divine Light: Immortality and the Golden Age

"The first time I saw Michael Portnoy dancing in the street wearing a pink tutu, cavorting like a matador with a taxi cab outside the Surf Reality performance space in the Lower East Side, I had a similar feeling to reading this collection of short Internet essays by the poet A.E. Reiff. Watching Portnoy's amazing 90s performance piece in the NYC streets, I wanted so much to be like that - magical, completely mad, jousting with society, but somehow untouchable, pristine and pure of heart. In an intellectual sort of way, this book is a little bit like that..."

From a review by Bill Weaver on Amazon

Myth and eidola, mythogema and invisible history out of Bosch, Bruegel, Loyola and new world exploration connect poetry and theology, society and myth as Werther Effects, image echoes on the public mind. Media watchers of these ops permit hidden eidola and give TACIT PERMISSION TO HAVE BEEN GRANTED. This programmed cognition enters public memes as illiterately as the artifacts and obelisks of American capitols and cities.