Scammer Peter Stead Fried creates a world of

Fried creates a world of Babylonian flow-charts

translated by Jen Calleja

and of transient population and change make the city a compelling subject

But can this Dostoyevskian figure save himself

male and female

Scammer Peter Stead Fried creates a world ofLuke Roberts had this to say about Scammer: Flaubert said with my burned hand I write about fire. In Scammer, Dom Hale plunges his whole head into the datastream, dictating his blips and theme songs through mouthfuls of toxic waste. He has his own venom: its about style and its about form. These poems dont just sprinkle on a little diction or flip a filter on or off. Theyre not accessories. They perform increasingly desperate attempts to find some