"With Asleep in the Lightning Fields Jorn Ake restores the pure
and soiled imagery of America in its astonishing transiency, its
vivid successions. This is poetry of urgent affiliations and fast
candor. I welcome it."—Donald Revell

    "Jorn Ake's poems delight in the raw energy that words possess
when they are given the necessary space and context in which to
perform their magic.  We read his poems a little breathlessly, with
a delighted, uneasy wonder, ushered into a world where details
stand out, good and bad, with a clarity and force not soon
forgotten."—David Young

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JORN AKE received his graduate degree in creative writing from
Arizona State University. Asleep in the Lightning Fields is his first
book. His second manuscript, The Circle Line, awaits a publisher.
Currently he lives in Prague, Czech Republic, where he is working
on his third manuscript, a book of poetry and photography.