Lord of Chaos
Daniel Beauregard
Erratum Press, 2023
Lord of Chaos is a novel that poetically embodies chaos and asks who is its master? Throughout the text, the story is told from the point of view of “we”—which is technically first-person but also is a way to meld the narrator into both you and me. The origins of we, the bringing together of multiple perspectives, the plurality inherent in the universal, is where chaos originates. Philosophical and psychedelic, this text looks into the void and records everything that echoes back to us.
Jesi Bender is an artist from Upstate New York. She is the author of the novels Rhododendron (forthcoming 2027), Child of Light, and The Book of the Last Word; the plays Crux and Kinderkrankenhaus; and the poetry collection Dangerous Women. Her shorter writing has appeared in FENCE, Denver Quarterly, Sleepingfish, and others. www.jesibender.com