· The Terminal Situation is a finished hybrid prose-poetry book focusing primarily on Sund’s dissolution of the relationship with his narcissistic partner and mother of his child (Janay, in his memoir). After taking it through three developmental rounds of edits with Jeffrey Levine, founder and editor of Tupelo Press (one of the premier independent presses for poetry over the last twenty years), Sund is currently shopping it around. The manuscript elicited this response by Levine:
“Sund has big gifts. He knows what he’s about. He wields a semi-surreal sabre through his poems, and he has an engaging, often disarming, intimate voice, reaching into (god knows where) for surprising language and transportive imagery.”