Black Hills Cabal

Black Hills Cabal is a striking poetry collection by Ocean, Olympia’s Poet Laureate, visual artist, and creator of the sonic project Port of the Sun. 

Originally from 2006 and recently re-released by Severed Branches Press, this limited edition features 86 pages of mythic, surreal verse—described as “an assemblage of bereaved mythic images and lovestrewn shipwrecks written in the tradition of transmutational animism” and “poems writ in phoenix ash.” 

The physical book is elegantly produced with a matte black cover, gold-foil embossed title, and red endpapers. It’s a hypnotic, dreamlike work that has influenced the Cascadian underground poetry scene for years. Perfect for fans of experimental, animistic, and hypnagogic writing.