In 1979 Karl Alexander burst upon the literary world with a brash, exciting novel with a unique concept: H. G. Wells, the famous,
...Describes a world in free-fall. This work presents poems that explore the ambivalence & dark unease of slippage & collapse, & they also carry a sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach, or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive.