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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Saltwort

Saltwort

Linker, Joe

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1542768977
ISBN13: 9781542768979
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Feb 3 2017
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

SALT-SPRITZED AND WEATHERED, there is a seasoned quality to the writing in Saltwort, a fifty-year collection (1967-2017). From the surf-washed beaches of 1960s California to the red dust of the modern business world, these poems and prose pieces find the extraordinary in the mundane: a plumber's van with a shelf for books among the tools, the ritual of Army coffee, the frizzled harvest of a pumpkin patch, and the quiet vertigo of an urgent care waiting room.

FROM GRITTY REALISM TO SURREAL JAZZ RIFFS, the language of Saltwort is attuned to the music of the sentence. Whether riffing on Kafka or baseball, the voice remains unfiltered and honest. The collection features a delightful blend of humor, satire, and irony-including a sestina featuring Charles Bukowski, a form the brewed bard likely never used, which transforms into a lyrical, gutter-full beauty. Guided by a foreword from Salvador Persequi (of Penina's Letters), the reader is invited to take shoes off and paddle out.

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