Fludde

A 21st century homage to Blake that critiques corruptive American institutions with satire and surrealism, Fludde reads like “Songs of Innocence and Experience, written by middle management.” 

Selected by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Fludde draws on Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience to critique and dismantle contemporary American values and conditioning: commodification, imperialism, toxic masculinity. Surreal and satirical, Mishler channels the voices of disillusioned middle management alongside the freewheeling imaginative vision of children to disrupt the fixity of our received ideas.

Old World

Sublunary Life

Paternity Test

Centuars in the Turnpike Woods

Workhorse

From the Incorporated Limits

Salvation Army

Mild Invective

Surf City

General Hospital

Family Farm

To a Feverish Child

Noye

Tenor

Refrain

Blind Minotaur Being Led by a Child

Rations

From the Overflow Hotel

Landscape

Central Casting

The Head in the Orchard

Study for the Boatsman

Geryon

Fludde

Morning Myth

Swim Club Kate in the City of Dis

Haruspex

Human Water

Overall Message

Unreasonable Myth

Demolition

Periphery

Little Lord Fauntleroy

A Vision

A Romance

Mount Airy Resort and Casino

On Quality Hill

Boy Rowing Asleep

Little Tom Dacre in Heaven

The Woodman's Ring

Astrolabe