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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
Burial Machine

Burial Machine

Griffin Hall, Jacob
Vogelpohl, Andrew

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0995599920
ISBN13: 9780995599925
Publisher: Backlash Press
Published: Apr 20 2022
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English


Winner of the Backlash Best Book Award. A poetry and photography collaboration.Life is a burial machine. It digs too much, buries too much, is forced to compress and compact every single impression until the plot explodes. The plot explodes. We start over. The year lengthens, then constricts. We suffer guilt, hide our little evils, make vows that become poems we can't keep but keep. Insects, not gods, will save us, our friends are in the sand with needles in their arms, we're not really sure what love is because we're probably really just trees, hands held high, / mythmaking, and polluted water and a frightening mess constantly illuminated and darkened by the ecstatic mind and tired universe of bones, as the poet Jacob Griffin Hall, whose brain bristles in the ashram of steamy meditation, describes us, embroidering the air with sweat or dew or heroin or all of it-all of it. This is the poetry of everything.

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