Transmigration Suite engages an extended poetic contemplation, diving into the whirlpool of birth, death, bardo, rebirth, the gods, and the spirit world. Continually shifting forms, it explores myriad dimensions of time, space, and consciousness. Unusually, it examines in depth the dualistic fascination between subject and object, and questions the identity of both. With humor, horror, splendor, and intrepid playfulness, it invokes existential quandaries and holds them up to the ever-changing light.

Gary Allen works in Niwot as the Education Director of the Mindfulness Peace Project, which teaches meditation to prison inmates and military veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress. He's written books on secular mindfulness practice for inmates (Discovering Sanity) and military vets (Warrior's Heart). He taught English in several Colorado colleges and for five years in South Korea. He's published five books of poetry, including Transmigration Suite, which came out this year.