The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That

A chicken lives for eighteen months after its head is cut off. Tourists pose with an inflatable sex doll at the 9/11 memorial. A sex-reveal party starts a wildfire in a forest named for a conquistador. The author’s cancer treatments are intertwined with the rise of domestic fascism. “Is that something I should put in a poem?” asks Nick Lantz; the resounding answer is yes!

Mixing sincerity with irony, lyric with vernacular, Lantz’s collisions of style and subject are at their most vibrant i...