In Black Dog Day, Brian Burt's precisely crafted and plainspoken poems trace a journey along the "trellis of connection" in search of the "pure present tense" offered by the daily example of the poet's black dog. A rejoinder to a world in which social media snark and a never-ending 24-hour news cycle are incessantly clamoring to narrow our world while purporting to widen it, Burt's poems invite us to turn our attention elsewhere - to a local world...
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