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Small, Rectangular, Reflected World

Small, Rectangular, Reflected World

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 194927960X
ISBN13: 9781949279603
Publisher: Nixes Mate Books
Published: May 1 2025
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

When has love ever known / how to follow a map or behave? J. D. Scrimgeour asks in this riveting collection, which journeys near and far - to the local thrift store, Red Sox game, and neighborhood as well as to Langston Hughes' Harlem, Chinese dissidents laboring in coal mines, and Thoreau petting fish in the Concord River. True to the book's title, these poems offer small rectangular reflections of the world, enabling us to see beyond superficies as we strive to understand and repair some of what we find broken. In the concluding tour de force, Words, Days, Flames, Scrimgeour riffs from Virgil's Aeneid to examine how we might maintain our humanity in the late days of empire. This is a timely, highly crafted book from a poet tender in his terror and brave in his clear sight.

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