Brace Yourselves is, in part, a language experiment with poems assembled from internet material then juxtaposed with confessional pieces de Giacomo uses to come to terms with fatherhood in the new millennium and the death of parents and friends. Brace Yourselves consists of these two divergent but inseparable parts working together to create a representation of individual experience as it relates to the Zeitgeist. What better way to represent the spirit of the times than with the internet and its multiplicity of languages.