Bashful, immodest, slick as a crow, and accompanied by the author’s neo-surrealist drawings, Rob Hogan’s debut poetry collection Imaginary Archery Club dances on the cusp of a dream, inviting readers into a world as chaotic as it is tender.

In four parts, Hogan taps between rooftop persuasions, subway qualms, and the theatrics of love lost, capturing near misses and existential musings from the west side of Manhattan to Far Rockaway Beach. With humor and candor and the reader gagged and bound in the back seat, Hogan white-knuckles the wheel and drives off heartbreak’s emotional cliff.

Full of drawings which complement the surrealist dreamscaping, Imaginary Archery Club is thematically marked by invention, rediscovery, and whimsy in the face of the quiet absurdity of time’s unstoppable progression.