Cool Gardens is a poetry book by the lead singer of the band System of a Down, Serj Tankian. It was published by MTV Books and was released on October 1, 2002. It is a collection of seven to eight years of Tankian's reflections on life, and features artwork by fellow Angeleno, Sako Shahinian. The poetry, like the songs of System of a Down, consists of a reflection of societies and people's wrongs. It portrays what people do to themselves and the control others try to hold over them.
The book has received much praise in the artistic community.
Poem listing
Prenatal Familiarities From Words To Portraits Mer Businessman vs. Homeless A Metaphor? Duty Free Fear Day Or Night Matter The Count Wet Flower Mercury City Of Blinds Compassion Brain Waves Compliment Rain Subatomic Music Days Inn Partial Moons Soil The Void Sun Bear Kevorkian Patient's Plee I Don't Want To Shower Desystemization Mix Information Silence Tars Nil Reality The Beautiful Jeffrey, Are You Listening? Freezing Pen Fermented Husbands Artco. Indentured Servitude Dawn Conquer? Circus Tiger Friik PsychiatryPsychiatry Orange Light Words Of A Madman My Words
Misunderstood Rose Defeatism Children Prop. 192 Child's Man I Am My Woman Overload Time For Bed Am Identity Permanently Plucked Shine Now Self Elimination New Ear Dr. Trance Puzzle Death A Mess Felix The Cat Revolution A Letter To Congress Data Minute Horizons Art Primrose Touche' Life Savers Nations One Word Lighter Addiction 12 Lives House Of Flies Cat Naps Culture NYC I Am Ready Her Eye Edge Of A Sink I'm Erica First Entry Flux
Adaptations On September 22, 2020, Cool Gardens was released as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by author, Tankian. The audiobook format has a runtime of one hour, six minutes. Three videos highlighting the spoken word versions of "Nil," "My Words," and "City of Blinds," featuring art and animation by Philadelphia-based artist D.S. Bradford, were released leading up to and after the audiobook's release.
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