All the Beautiful Dead (Along the Side of the Road)

By Christien Gholson

Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Bitter Oleander Library of Poetry Book Award. "Gholson's ALL THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD (ALONG THE SIDE OF THE ROAD) is a harrowing, razor-biting collection which addresses the wounded and the outcast, in a landscape of boxcars, poppies, crows, empty fields, the lights of Las Vegas which can't overpower the open black mouth of the desert night, and the rusted lives and emotional shrapnel ranging from Wales to Colorado, New Mexico to Gaza. This poet's range is wide, able to enter the surrealist canvases of Remedios Varo, as well as everyday struggles, such as unemployment, the death of his father. The voice that immaculately gathers all of these rune-like fragments informs us how he has been 'desperately trying to read them, knowing there is no answer.' But the poems themselves are a candle, even if it's flickering. And Gholson's voice is a prayer 'in the coldest of winters.'" Anthony Seidman (BOPLOPA judge for 2015)"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0986204927
• ISBN13: 9780986204920
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Bitter Oleander Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"