A short autobiographical vomitory (as one reader put it), Rick & Jack in Croatia is an unfiltered reaction to a very emotive photograph Harsch received this past Christmas. The result is a surreal horserace towards sense that diminishes with extreme prejudice beginning at the starting gate, fetlocks trampling the very private and the ugliest of publics. If an author is prepared to talk about playing with his genitals, his desire to converse with historical figures such as Osama bin Laden and Yahyah Sinwar are owed a listen.

"Rick Harsch continues to map the personal and the global in oneiric terror. Rick and Jack in Croatia is a bitter cordial of being opposing a concentrate of nothingness. Harsch's international concerns should be our own."
John Dickson