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    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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Cathedral

Cathedral

Hall, Elontra

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1918628114
ISBN13: 9781918628111
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Published: Aug 31 2026
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Cathedral by Elontra Hall takes the basketball court as a site of devotion, where sweat, craft, and repetition become forms of prayer. Rooted in Detroit and stretched across the Atlantic, Hall's poems move between a remembered city of hoops, family, and street ceremony and a present life of fatherhood in England, carrying grief for a brother, a cousin, and the dead friends the title poem petitions to house. Cathedral is formally restless: mirrored structures, braided double columns, a haiku closing a prose poem, and a circling concrete piece all enact the collection's concern with how meaning is built and rebuilt from fracture. The recurring plea to be made a cathedral becomes both elegy and architecture, a way of holding the living and the lost in one structure.

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