Third Wave Images is startling in it's vision and stark landscape- a media-hyper society blinded by flashes of bleak cynicism, expressed by the streamlined and clean, high tech hip verse and rhythm of Andrew Dazz. The volume is split by three sections, as the poetry accompanied by artwork uses the dual medium to create visual word and worlds, searching for the risk of "real love" where no one has anything to lose. Lovers meet and exchange glances and sex, and dreamers dream of what was lost as they "whisper to oblivion."
Politics, love, and television are juxtaposed as part of our daily lives, while Dazz scathingly remarks on the New Right, yuppies, and drugs- which are a "suicide of the mind." The city and religion, technology and passions, come together in these poems to create a mew voice in the eighties- hardened and clever, cunning and blatant. Yet Mr. Dazz doesn't forego emotion when he writes: "To desire,/To do away with this inferno/That's burning me alive/And reincarnated with hope."
For a generation that is quickly becoming desensitized, this book will surely enlighten.