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    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
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About the Dead: Volume 15

About the Dead: Volume 15

Mossotti, Travis

Paperback

Series: Swenson Poetry Award, Book 15

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0874218276
ISBN13: 9780874218275
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: Oct 20 2011
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Travis Mossotti writes with humor, gravity, and humility about subjects grounded in a world of grit, where the quiet mortality of working folk is weighed. To Mossotti, the love of a bricklayer for his wife is as complex and simple as life itself: ask him to put into words what that sinking is, /that shudder in his chest, as he notices/the wrinkles gathering at the corners of her mouth. But not a whiff of sentiment enters these poems, for Mossotti has little patience for ideas of the noble or for sympathetic portraits of hard-used saints. His vision is clear, as clear as the memory of how scarecrows in the rearview, each of them, stuffed/into a body they didn't choose, resembled/your own plight. His poetry embraces unsanctimonious life with all its wonder, its levity, and clumsiness. About the Dead is an accomplished collection by a writer in control of a wide range of experience, and it speaks to the heart of any reader willing to catch his drift, and ride it like the billowed/end of some cockamamie parachute all the way/back to the soft, dysfunctional, waiting earth.

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