Mortal Trash: Poems

ôKim AddonizioÆs voice lifts from the page, alive and bitingùunleashing wit with a ruthless observation.öùSan Francisco Book Review Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called ôOver the Bright and Darkened Lands,ö canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. ôExcept Thou Ravish Me,ö reimagines John DonneÆs famous ôBatter my heart, Three-personÆd Godö as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears ôa swarm of objects that call without being answeredö: 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 ôScrapbookö: 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.

• | Author: Kim Addonizio
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0393354342
• | ISBN-13: 9780393354348