Poetry. THE NEXT MONSTERS navigates the cobbles of human monsterness. The image of a white horse in the road produces a sense of human belonging, while a domestic dispute fractures that calm, exposing a new monster. These poetic mini-essays churn with violence and love, healing and torture--one always eclipsing the other--and offer challenges to the limitations of identity. THE NEXT MONSTERS embraces the alienation, imagination, and catharsis that scaffold the self.