A composer of language's skewed longings, Jerry Lieblich torques and tickles our grammars, taking these jangly, tangling systems as occasions for probing the political structures through which we participate in our and others' demise. This volume collectsMahineratorandThe Barbarians. InMahinerator, an ambitious bureaucrat, speaking in a quasi-English pseudolect, tells his greatliest life story; a story of the banalation of the evilwise, of vacuumic compressulated ecocide.The Barbariansis a loggorheic encyclopedic rambunctious gollywompus of a play concerning speech acts, political power, fractal geometry, eusociality, theater, nonsense, aircraft carriers, cell phone networks, Bifrst, "My Heart Will Go On," semiotics, pyramids, and picturesque American normalcy.