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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
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Kansas City Gothic

Kansas City Gothic

Tretbar, Alex

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1917617380
ISBN13: 9781917617383
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Published: Oct 31 2025
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Kansas City Gothic by Alex Tretbar is a hallucinatory, incantatory fugue of incarceration, addiction, and survival, written in jagged, recursive fragments that chart a psychic and political topography of the American Midwest. Structured around alternating 'movements' and 'codas', the collection draws from jazz, liturgy, and urban decay to form a syntax of rupture and return. Tretbar's lines are elliptical, layered with allusion, attuned to the rhythms of memory and trauma. Across spaces of incarceration, punk houses, hospice beds, and poisoned landscapes, the voice moves with stark intimacy and formal invention. The result is a darkly luminous reckoning with violence, recovery, and the unstable ground between personhood and place.

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