Mystics Recourse: A Poetic Journey offers a reflection on human creativity, originality, and the importance of expression at a time when automation increasingly shapes art and communication. It offers a needed alternative to artificial intelligence and its limitations.

In the book’s introduction and poems, author Robert Strasser reflects on poetry’s historical role as a source of inquiry, resistance, and meaning. Written in a decade of rapid change, and intensified by personal illness, the collection emphasizes lived experience over abstraction and technologically based solutions to our needs as living, feeling human beings.

The poems advocate for slowing down, paying attention, and remaining connected to the natural and emotional dimensions of life. Rather than responding to trends, Mystics Recourse invites readers to engage deeply with language shaped by real circumstance and reflection.

Released on November 11, 2025, the book speaks to readers interested in literary depth, cultural awareness, and the enduring relevance of poetry in society drifting on autopilot.