All the White Men Killed Themselves

The poetry of Mark Lounibos looks deeply into the nature of being people out of place and not belonging. The title poem "All the White Men Killed Themselves" shows us the nature of the loss we experience through such diseases as Manifest Destiny and white culture. The book opens up a raw feeling of loss and displacement. It is time for this document of repentance. All the White Men Killed Themselves is an incomplete anatomy of one species of despair. It traces an inverted arc of impotency, love, nihilism, and hope. It marks a beginning, not an end. It speaks for no one but itself.