Reading Michael Chang’s Drakkar Noir is a metaphor for walking through a healthy spay of the eponymous cologne: top notes of radical diction, middle notes of fearlessness, and a dry down of sex… these poems raucously challenge everything hallowed about poetry and find a way to make something fresh and true out of our cruel detritus - Poet Randall Mann
Reading Michael Chang’s Drakkar Noir is a metaphor for walking through a healthy spay of the eponymous cologne: top notes of radical diction, middle notes of fearlessness, and a dry down of sex… these poems raucously challenge everything hallowed about poetry and find a way to make something fresh and true out of our cruel detritus - Poet Randall Mann