We Can’t Program the Sun, by Jake Lane

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

We Can’t Program the Sun takes us through the philosophical and intimate settings of what life has been and what it could become if we continue down certain paths. In his debut book, poet Jake Lane creates an energy that is both intimate and vulnerable, exploring memory, time, control, faith, and the human condition with immediacy and efficiency.

Whether it’s questioning the choices we’re making as a people, the art we’re desperate to control, or what the world may look like by the time our children and grandchildren are roaming within it, We Can’t Program the Sun takes the bleak in one hand and the beauty of the unknown in the other, clasping them together as we move forward with hope.

Jake is a husband, father, and poet whose work focuses on examining themes of identity, memory, faith, and the human condition. His work has been published in The Writing Disorder, Coalition Works, JMWW, As Surely as the Sun, Creative Colloquy, and Eunoia Review. Jake is an MFA candidate at Augsburg University and lives in the Pacific Northwest.