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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
american aorta

american aorta

Baldinger, Jason

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1958182435
ISBN13: 9781958182437
Publisher: Oac Press
Published: Oct 23 2023
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Jason Baldinger's American Aorta pulses like a midwestern road trip to the dustbowl, the soundtrack a steady thump of pavement and beating sun. You can smell the diesel and fast food on your fingers and in your clothes. In a roadhouse/I order a gallon of sweet tea/a platter of catfish/let the air conditioner be my spine. Baldinger brings us to each new scene with largehearted compassion and tender observation. From painkillers and double shift towns and for miss woodchopper to emphysema highways and bonnie parker heart, characters are sketched here from dust and rust, their souls on subtle display. This collection is a lifetime of travel and connection through the American rustbelt with gracious tribute at each stop, asking its readers to return, to savor the words like a slow sun laying itself wide at the edge of the sky. After the speakeasy/stars pour molten metal/sparks of rustbelt towns/fade in a kansas city skyline... as the hours flash on/age plays tag with us.

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