The first verb in SB Stokes' magnum opus, A History of Broken Love Things, is "wanna."He is a poet of hope, expectation, and desire, which prepare us for the erratic path of lifeas it is actually lived: "a large weepy beast, /a guy with some hats, / a stark-raging husband, /an ineffectual queen." In the beautifully titled poem, "dark magick / a solitude by duke," he writes, "The piano pounds its own heart into bits." But even desolation offers its...
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