With razor-sharp wit and lan, Joseph DeRoche's poems remind us that revelation is never easy--that it often comes at great cost as we "float to Paradise / In a slaughter / Of small things." DeRoche's poems are as formally taut as they are conversationally playful. His impeccable, architectural eye for detail creates a language that unmakes and reshapes the coercive structures that constrict our speech. In poems that delightfully blur the boundary...
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