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Sunglasses in a Dark Room
Paperback
Publisher Price: $23.95
ISBN13: 9781774034293
Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing
Published: Mar 28 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.34 Width: 4.37 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Sunglasses in a Dark Room is Michael C. Keith at his most distilled and daring - a master of micro-prose poetry delivering flashes of insight that land with the force of full narratives. In these razor-sharp, often startlingly brief pieces, Keith explores the absurdities, sorrows, contradictions, and quiet devastations of ordinary life. Each micro-poem is a small aperture into the human condition: mortality, memory, loneliness, aging, desire, regret, and the strange comedy of simply being alive.
Keith's voice moves effortlessly from dark humor to philosophical reflection, from surreal imagery to stark emotional truth. A man plans his final words; a widow wraps herself in her late wife's scent; a pilot ignores an iceberg in equatorial Africa; a poet envies Salman Rushdie one eye and all; a widower avoids the cemetery because even the dead still scold him. These pieces are compact but expansive, often no more than a few lines, yet they linger long after the page is turned.
With his signature blend of wit, melancholy, and existential clarity, Keith captures the fleeting moments that define us - the private thoughts, the strange encounters, the quiet griefs, the absurdities of culture, and the small revelations that illuminate our days. Sunglasses in a Dark Room is a book to be read slowly, savored, and returned to, each piece a spark in the darkness.
For readers of micro-fiction, prose poetry, and literary minimalism, this collection showcases a writer who understands that sometimes the shortest lines carry the deepest truths. Keith's work reminds us that even in the dark, there is something worth seeing - if we're willing to look.
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