Monster Portraits Author|Mike Conklin However terrorism does exist and

However terrorism does exist and I feel this book might enlighten those that turn a blind eye to its existence

while also inhibiting your ability to express your internal experiences verbally

' says a speaker in the book s last poem

The author of numerous poetry collections published in the United States

Monster Portraits Author|Mike Conklin However terrorism does exist andRelentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of twotexts and drawings, brother and sister,