The Stars Askew

Though I haven’t seen it, I believe that the first chapter of my novel, The Stars Askew, is printed at the end of Unwrapped Sky. The title comes from a Victor Serge poem. Here’s the stanza which serves as an epigraph at the start of the book.

If we roused the peoples and made the continents quake,
…began to make everything anew with these dirty old stones,
these tired hands, and the meagre souls that were left us,
it was not in order to haggle with you now,
sad revolution, our mother, our child, our flesh,
our decapitated dawn, our night with its stars askew….

Victor Serge, 1890-1947