Monster More Alive is a raw exploration of intergenerational trauma through narrative poetry, lyric essay, and channeled verse. It grapples with monsters, it is monsters, and despite best efforts, it's alive. Published by Lambhouse, a small Boston publisher specializing in beautiful handmade books, with cover art by Ellery Harvey. 
 
Praise
 
Monster More Alive gives you goosebumps, drops your jaw. Humans have been determined, for so long, to separate ourselves from nature—to objectify, possess, control, and profit from it. This alienating impulse can extend to how people treat each other. How often are our projections of “strength” really projections of weakness and need? Fake strength—power that relies on subjugation—needs to prove itself constantly; real strength is required to fight it. Jezmina Von Thiele slays monsters, summons others, and pierces the silence that centuries of coercion have imposed as normal. “Time is chaos” and “madness is remembering,” but with a ferocious intellect—and a knife tucked in her boot—this poet engages with her personal history, Romani ancestry, and an almost mystical relationship with the natural world to unearth a collection that is equal parts resistance, warning, and revelation. --John Deming, Headline News
 
Jez’s monsters are neither childish decoration nor leftover folklore. They are the poem’s meaning made visible. They are the shadow at the edge of consciousness that demonstrate how Roma cannot outrun the monsters of molestation, horror and death. The reader is caught in a spiral of needing help, but not knowing how to get it. In poetry that challenges the truism of comfort in the strength of love, we learn at what cost is a crime free pass and trauma to the female Roma/Gypsies body. --Frances Roberts Reilly, Parramisha