What Is Owed the Dead

by R.H.W. Dillard

Poetry. R.H.W. Dillard's long-awaited seventh collection consists of a sequence of fifty-two poems, each sixteen lines long, each addressed to a dead poet or several times to more than one dead poet. Each is a meditation of sorts upon that poet's work, secondarily that poet's life, and ultimately, all together, upon the life of poems themselves in a continually violent and inherently unjust world. The syntax of these poems is shattered, interrupted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984069887
• ISBN13: 9780984069880
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Factory Hollow Press
• Length: 53 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 7.3"