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Dustopia
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: Quiltsquare Press
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Set in the Arkansas Delta, Dustopia is a debut poetry collection that confronts the brutal contradictions of Southern life with unflinching honesty and lyrical precision. Dan Russell writes from within a landscape shaped by poverty, memory, violence, and quiet endurance, where gospel hymns echo through histories of exploitation, and survival is measured in what can be carried from one day into the next.
Throughout, Russell documents working-class experience with a witness-driven intensity: late-night confessions, inherited grief, fractured families, and moments of hard-won tenderness. His poems resist sentimentality while remaining deeply humane, finding flashes of grace not in escape, but in attention itself.
Blending the surreal violence of Frank Stanford, the elemental grit of Jim Harrison, and the documentary lyricism of C. D. Wright, Dustopia will resonate with readers of Larry Levis, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón. Like those writers, Russell balances accessibility with depth, crafting poems that are grounded in lived experience yet formally and emotionally sophisticated.
Dustopia announces a powerful new voice in American poetry, one that refuses to look away from the realities of place, class, and mortality, and instead transforms them into stark, enduring art.
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