Christopher Bernard is the co-editor of Caveat Lector. His most recent book of poetry is Chien Lunatique (2017, Regent Press); his new novel, Meditations on Love and Catastrophe at The Liars’ Café, will appear later this year.

Image: Faust, A Tragedy (J. W. von Goethe; illustration by Lynd Ward) (FirstFolio.com)