Mortal Trash: Poems

by Kim Addonizio

Book Overview

Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called "Over the Bright and Darkened Lands," canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. "Except Thou Ravish Me," reimagines John Donne's famous "Batter my heart, Three-person'd God" as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears "a swarm of objects that call without being answered"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393249166
• ISBN13: 9780393249163
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"