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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
612-822-4611
All These Hungers

All These Hungers

Mulkey, Rick

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1950739031
ISBN13: 9781950739035
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 21 2021
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Turn my hungers. Feed, hungers, in the meadows of sounds, wrote our crazed surrealist French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, over one hundred years ago. Talented, candid, intellectually nimble, neither crazed nor surreal, Rick Mulkey turns on his hungers, turns Rimbaud into something American, small town scrappy, transparent and musky: these memorable poems land on the tongue and in the brain and center on the stomach. Whisky, beans, peppered pork belly bacon, lemonade, unclean scrambled eggs, very cold sweet tea, onions, beets, tomatoes, wine, beer - the poems overflow with juice. These poems celebrate sex - the salty taste of the body's hidden flesh and excrement - there's the kind beetles roll into balls across the savannah. These Rabelaisian poems have a nose for the ground that smells like dusty clocks. More Roethke than Whitman, more Hogarth than Gainsborough, this book's gritty lyric excretes an aroma that lingers. This book honors what many lost in the world's worst pandemic: taste and smell. -Spencer Reece

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