Proof of Life on Earth by Degna Stone Virginia Astley It is exciting to meet

It is exciting to meet a new writer

the atrocities of American empire and consumerism

were written in response to the death of Limburg’s younger brother

parallel world of ‘vomit and blossom’ where Kate Bush mingles with a weeping Lady Gaga

It includes some notable performance pieces from an often volatile and divisive career

Proof of Life on Earth by Degna Stone Virginia Astley It is exciting to meetYou live and then you die. Thats the only certainty there is, right? Using love as its guide, Proof of Life on Earth, the debut poetry collection by Degna Stone, looks at all the stops between our arrival and our departure. These poems examine matters of the heart (both the metaphorical and medical kind), of race and discrimination, of the body, mind and self each in forensic detail, attentive and curious of what moves, shapes, and makes us alive. In