The Center is Barbaric the Periphery is Without Lights :: Tim Earley

I aborted the crass recursions with which the URBAN METAL insutured and pared my face. My faciality was the rendered heart of a LUXURIOUS SHREW. I ought to conceal ye by confiding in me. I ought to explicate the HORROR CRIME and make a special section of THE BOOK. It was given to me that an enormous black peach grew in my savior’s eye and he was therefore named SIGURD-PEACH-IN-THE-EYE.

THE BOOK

The Center is Barbaric the Periphery is Without Lights is a hand-typeset, letterpress edition of 150.

THE AUTHOR

Tim Earley was born and raised in the Sandy Mush community of Rutherford County, North Carolina. He is the author of five books of poems, and his work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. He was educated at Isothermal Community College, USC Upstate, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Alabama, where he earned an MFA in Creative Writing. Earley is the recipient of writing fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Hawthornden Castle in Lasswade, Scotland. Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, he teaches online courses in creative writing, Appalachian literature, fantasy literature, and early British literature. 

Tim is the founder of Odd Bard Games, a group of poets and writers dedicated to producing tabletop roleplaying games with an emphasis on character development and narrative richness. His first game, Holler: An Appalachian Apocalypse, uses the Savage Worlds rules system and focuses on labor conflict, environmental crisis, and Appalachian ghost stories/folklore. Holler will be published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group in 2021.

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