The world’s largest book fair, Frankfurter Buchmesse, once again opened its doors from October 15–19, 2025, in Frankfurt, Germany—welcoming dreamers, storytellers, and innovators from around the globe. Known as the beating heart of the publishing world, this grand event gathers more than 7,500 exhibitors from over 100 countries, along with an expected 280,000 attendees and 10,000 media professionals. It’s not just a fair—it’s a global celebration of literature, culture, and creativity.
This year’s fair promises to be extraordinary, with over 4,000 seminars and roundtable discussions spotlighting the future of books and storytelling. From bold new voices to legendary authors, the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 continues to serve as the ultimate hub for discovering fresh perspectives and timeless tales.
This year’s Guest of Honour—Philippines—adds even more vibrance to the event, presenting its rich literary tradition and cultural heritage. With an array of thought-provoking works and captivating stories, the 2025 Frankfurter Buchmesse promises to be a celebration of imagination without borders.
As the fair celebrates another successful year of bringing together the brightest minds in publishing, Citi of Books proudly joins the festivities at the 77th Frankfurter Buchmesse, showcasing inspiring titles from its talented authors. Among the featured works in the BookGallery is “Adroit Sass Succulence: Based Poetry in a Postmodern Hellscape” by Rich K. Rubio — a poetry that challenges norms while embracing the chaos of being human.
Rich Rubio is a creative author that went into the world of fantasy ghostwriting in 2019, and put the pedal to the metal since. The founder of Shogun Services, he has brought his love of storytelling to pages for clients, delivering undefeated, powerful, persuasive writing for all that he puts words to pages for.
With over 25+ books published for delighted customers, Rich has gained acclaim from around the world with his clients, as well as featured in the Los Angeles Tribune headlines, amongst other growing accolades. His results have been brought to fields outside of sorcery fiction and gone into indie game script writing, radio dramas, NFT story writing and oversight, email and copywriting services for businesses, autobiographies, education material, sales scripts, short stories, technical writing for contracts, and much more.
“Adroit Sass Succulence: Based Poetry in a Postmodern Hellscape” is a bold and evocative poetry collection. In this audacious work, Rubio invites readers into an existential landscape where postmodern chaos meets lyrical intensity—melding sharp wit (“sass”) with rich emotion (“succulence”) set against the backdrop of a world he terms “hellscape.” The title itself hints at the collection’s dual nature—both playful and piercing.
Across the pages, Rubio delivers poems that wrestle with identity, culture, digitization, alienation, and the absurdities of our contemporary era. The “postmodern hellscape” acts both as setting and metaphor: a world overloaded with information, detached relationships, climate anxiety, and fractured meaning. In this terrain, the poet uses “sass” as survival—irreverence as a shield—and “succulence” as counterbalance—a yearning for depth, beauty, and flavor in life.
According to listings, the collection was “written to deliver an alternative to the often sullen, sad, striking, wistful musings of most modern literature in the post-internet world.” Readers might encounter poems that compare digital overload with primal fears, personal intimacy with cosmic distance, tragedy with dark humor. The effect is kaleidoscopic—each poem a shard of a fractured yet vivid whole.
“Adroit Sass Succulence: Based Poetry in a Postmodern Hellscape” by Rich K. Rubio is more than a book of verses—it’s a mirror for our era, a sharp glance at the clutter and noise of modern life, and a polemic for finding flavor in what feels flavorless. If you’re drawn to poetry that doesn’t just reflect but rips at the seams, then this collection is worth your time. It’s a challenge, a ride, and a reminder that language still has teeth.
For anyone who wants poetry that speaks of this time—the connected-yet-isolated, the overloaded-yet-yearning—Rubio’s book offers both confrontation and communion.
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