Escaping Shangrila

Escaping Shangrila is a clever collection of poems written in a biting and sardonic, narrative free-flowing style in the effort to both shock and repel, and absorb its readers, as a social and cultural, spiritual and psycho-logical comment and satire of what it means to survive and thrive (often not, just hanging on by a thread) in the cookie-cutter conformist bland and barren atmosphere and land of contemporary America today, which unfortunately, sadly enough, in too many ways, appears more often than not to just miss the mark and to not pay off in the long run. In Joseph Reich's most recent heartfelt work, Escaping Shangrila, you will feel what if feels like to futilely and often painstakingly look within and out and then back in once again.