Anachronic Love

A woman, a chess legend, and a love untethered from time.

In this striking poetry collection, desire and admiration collide across decades. These contemporary poems explore a profound obsession with the legendary fourth World Chess Champion, Alexander Alekhine—a fierce, attacking genius, rendered by a voice who does not play chess.

This is not a biography of Alekhine or a book on chess strategy. Instead, it is an earnest dialogue with a cold Grandmaster of logic in the language of the heart. These lyric poems and sincere love letters reach across chess history to a man who lived entirely within his own mind and the sixty four squares, offering a sincere, haunting dialogue between a chess world of rigid borders and a devotion that knows none.

Step into a lush world where logic obeys longing, the dead have more presence than the living, and the heart plays its own game–bold, tender, and hauntingly out of step with the world.