Aaron Tucker Knihy

Inspired by a groundbreaking 1968 chess performance by Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, this poetry collection transforms chess games into innovative poems through the ChessBard app, co-created by the author. Aaron Tucker captures Duchamp's playful artistic spirit while merging analog and digital elements to produce unique, computer-generated poetry. The collection features an introduction by Jennifer Shahade, a two-time U.S. Women's Chess Champion, enhancing its connection to the chess world and artistic experimentation.

"An unnamed man is spending the evening with his ex-girlfriend. She's obsessed with the 1956 John Wayne classic The Searchers, and she recounts the story as a way for them to talk about their histories, their families, maybe even their relationship. But as he gets more drunk and belligerent, she gets more and more uncomfortable with him being in her home. And then, the next day, a mysterious catastrophic event befalls Toronto, and our protagonist must trek across the city to find Melanie. His quest spirals into increasing violence, bloodshed, and hallucinations as he moves west through the confusion and chaos of the city. Using the tropes of both the Western and the disaster movie, Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys looks at the violence of our contemporary masculinity, and its deep roots in shaping our culture. A suspenseful and thought-provoking evocation of our current moment."-- Provided by publisher