2025 Book Bundle: <em>Slow mania</em>, <em>The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation</em>, and <em>The Downsides</em>

Selected for publication from Futurepoem's annual open reading period by guest editors Gabriela Jáuregui, Shiv Kotecha, and Ronaldo V. Wilson. 

Using fluid prose, sardonic poetry, textural photography, and sprawling performance scores, Nazareth Hassan’s second book is a psychogeographical text that weaves a portrait of the complications of self-acceptance. The text follows multiple unnamed characters, all of whom narrate the inner life of the space and people around them as they navigate toxic cityscapes, breathless relationships, public violence, and indiscriminate release. Alienation becomes a guiding light, leading them to richer versions of themselves.

Nazareth Hassan is a writer, director, musician, and performer. Slow mania is their second book.