A sestina book review of Expraedium by Aremen Melikian

Title: EXPRAEDIUM
Author: Armen Melikian
Publisher: Erzenka Publishing House
Release Date: December 1, 2023
ISBN: 978-0-971870-5-1

Piss on tyranny’s bookmorgue experiment,
Brathki, our hero in anti sheep’s clothing, strips to flesh in language,
breathes fantasy in dissonance amidst euphonious dread.
Euphoric dystopias smooth topical cream over epic erotics.
For readers who love savoring Slow Cognitive Powerlifting,
this novel breaks every rule/every word, laughing, shakes the story.

Mystery meets mysticism’s mistaken identity in embattled lands of story,
pleas cease fire Zinzinoid insurrection in Hambergerland, arms experiments.
But funny Brathki antics make bulging cheeks do all the powerlifting.
Characters like Baba Boosh and Milk Lord Orcon speak one language
while twin sisters impart Brathki love of diabolical divine erotica
so as to be the one who transubstantiates, soothing all anoon dread.

No plot, but an umbilicum subcurrent scheme of deific dread.
Minds take off their clothes to be naked with Ea’s primal hushstory.
Omega seduces Alpha with four waves of poetic eroticism,
tricking bipeds into believing the Holy Hoshhosh war-torn experiment,
despots, dragons, icons, pimperial narcissists breathe sulfuric language—
the hushstorical record of Brathki’s dreamspeak portends powerlifting.

Tyranny, genocide, divine epic, dirty jokes at the poetic powerlift,
this is a novel in reVerse playing reverence to the Dread.
YawaYawa, god Ubaratutuans create mythanoia of far-off language
to form a cosmic brotherhood to erase the biped and natoton stories,
to slow the “Everything will become its opposite” experiment,
and to see: can oratory beat love’s hypothesis into Academonic Erotics?

Two thousand years of evolutionary hushstory reveal Eros’
post-life promises. Who’s brother who’s enemy in arenas of powerlifters?
Ground opens; the dead walk; all hate skews absurd experiments.
After uprisings, rise and fall all Civilizations of Dread,
stolen sacred texts are, dead scrolls from dead seas swallowing stories
of the Urmashuan lunar god. Hideology is a real word in this language.

Brave reader, love you some anarchy of words baffling language?
If yes, and you seek to rub the pornographer’s stone against erotic
incomprehension while your brain craves mayhem, then Brathki’s story!
Regimes, rebellions, wrathful deities devour traditions, powerlifting
humanity’s spirit with no memory of the civilizations rewritten by Dread.
Dare to read this book and donate your mind to a mad science experiment!

Experiment with or without and within language.
Holy Dread gnashing teeth on eros is to logos as rigor is to erotica.
Powerlift a guerrilla chopper as rotor blades shape sky into story.

©Rebecca Jane Johnson, 2024

Rebecca Jane is the author of She Bleeds Sestinas (Atmosphere Press 2023).