Poems of The New Evangelion

What does it mean to be human when the angels are already at the gates?

Poems of the New Evangelion is a collection of 38 contemporary poems written in the shadow of Hideaki Anno’s landmark anime series — but it reaches far beyond its source. Moving through four distinct movements, the collection transforms the apocalyptic architecture of Neon Genesis Evangelion into a sustained meditation on:

• Existential crisis & identity — the self examined at its most fractured
• Angels & apocalypse — myth as a structure for what prose cannot carry
• Memory & grief — loss rendered without sentimentality
• Self-awareness & survival — the terrifying, necessary work of enduring oneself

These are not fan poems. They are poems that use myth the way Eliot used myth — as a structure for holding what language alone cannot carry. Angels become the weight of memory. The End of Evangelion becomes a question about whether self-awareness is a wound or a gift. And through it all, a single thesis quietly insists:

nothing means / but we’re alive.

For readers of contemporary poetry, mythology, and the literature of existential crisis.