Holy Land

"Rauan Klassnik’s HOLY LAND is not a book for the faint of heart. His poems – dreamlike fables that conflate the domestic and quotidian with the dangerous and the perverse – are bathed in tears and blood: a trip to the bank becomes a journey to Auschwitz; bullets and gore find equivalence in rivers, birds and lush grass. In Klassnik's startling vision, 'the world knows what you want, and it knows what you need. It brings you bodies. And it brings you a gun" – Gary Young.

Rauan Klassnik was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. In his early teens he moved to Dallas, Texas with his family. Much of his time is now spent in Mexico.