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    612-822-4611

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Black Observatory: Poems

Black Observatory: Poems

Brean Murray, Christopher

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1639550267
ISBN13: 9781639550265
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Feb 14 2023
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Telescopes aim to observe the light of the cosmos, but Christopher Brean Murray turns his powerful lens toward the strange darkness of human existence in Black Observatory, selected by Dana Levin as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize.

With speakers set adrift in mysterious settings--a motel in the middle of a white-sand desert, a house haunted by the ghost of a dead writer, an abandoned settlement high in the mountains, a city that might give way to riotous forest--Black Observatory upends the world we think we know. Here, an accident with a squirrel proves the least bizarre moment of a day that is ordinary in outline only. The future is revealed in a list of odd crimes-to-be. And in a field of grasses, a narrator loses himself in a past and present human conflagration / of desire and doubt, the path to a field of unraveling.

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