Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called āOver the Bright and Darkened Lands,ā canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. āExcept Thou Ravish Me,ā reimagines John Donneās famous āBatter my heart, Three-personād Godā as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears āa swarm of objects that call without being answeredā: hospital crash carts, lawn gnomes, Evian bottles, wind-up Christmas creches, edible panties, cracked mirrors. Whether comic, elegiac, or ironic, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth.
From āScrapbookā:
We believe in the one-ton rose
and the displaced toilet equally. Our blues
assume you understand
not much, and try to be alive, just as we do,
and that it may be helpful to hold the hand
of someone as lost as you.
This book title, Mortal Trash (Poems) - 9780393354348, ISBN: 9780393354348, by Kim Addonizio, published by W. W. Norton & Company (August 1, 2017) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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