NORMAL WAS THE FIRST CASUALTY: A COLLECTION OF DYSTOPIAN POETRY - Couverture souple

Schwartz, R. J.

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ISBN 13 : 9798249456924

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Normal Was the First Casualty is a collection of dystopian poetry about what happens when a society stops questioning. Not all collapse arrives with sirens and flames. Much of it arrives softly — through repetition, accommodation, and the slow acceptance of the unacceptable as routine.

These poems move through five threads — Suspicion, Collapse, Oppression, Compliance, and Survival — tracing how a world changes when surveillance becomes ordinary, when language is reshaped to make control feel like protection, and when public life turns into performance under watchful systems. The collection is less concerned with a single catastrophic event than with the quiet chain of small surrenders that make catastrophe possible.

In Suspicion, the first shift is felt: a sense of being watched, measured, and guided. In Collapse, the familiar begins to break down, not always violently, but predictably — institutions hollowing, trust thinning, truth becoming negotiable. Oppression follows, not only through force, but through rules that tighten until people forget they were ever allowed to move freely. Compliance is the most unsettling thread: the point where the cage no longer needs bars, because habit does the work. And in Survival, what remains is not triumph, but endurance — the stripped-down human instinct to persist, to remember, to keep something intact inside even when the outside cannot be saved.

This is poetry for readers drawn to dystopian literature, political undertones, and work that confronts rather than comforts. It does not offer easy villains or clean resolutions. It holds a mirror to the modern appetite for convenience, distraction, and safety — and asks what we traded away to get them.

Because before systems fully harden, they rehearse.
Before freedoms disappear, definitions change.
Before the world admits it has fallen, it learns to call the fall “normal.”

And normal is always the first casualty.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798249456924
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 118
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