FISH HAVE NO PSYCHIATRISTS: A DAY WITH ANDREI CODRESCU is a creative documentary collage hosted by Julian Semilian centering around the life and times of poet, novelist, NPR commentator and current Pushcart Prize award winner, Andrei Codrescu. From Dada to quadrupedalism, Andrei and others offer us odes to personal experiences and free-wheeling perspectives outwitting easy category, a playful paean countering totalitarianisms and other forms of functional fixedness.

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the center of all the writer’s afterlife encounters. She is the subject of his life’s greatest regret, and she materializes everywhere in this Otherworld. The writer cannot detach any thoughts of his life from her.