BOOKS - Black Aperture
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Black Aperture
Author: Matt Rasmussen
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 728 KB
Language: English
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 728 KB
Language: English
In his moving debut collection Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brothers suicide refusing to focus on the expected pathos blurring the edge between grief and humor In Outgoing the speaker erases his brothers answering machine message to save his family from the shame of dead you answering calls In other poems onceordinary objects become dreamlike A buried light bulb blooms downward a flower of smoldering filaments A refrigerator holds an evening landscape a tinfoil lake vegetables dying in the crisper Destructive and redemptive Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning damage and healing sorrow and laughter and torment balanced with moments of relief
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