Mortal Trash: Poems - Kim Addonizio

n nPassionate 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 hospital crash carts, lawn gnomes, Evian bottles, wind-up Christmas creches, edible panties, cracked mirrors. Whether comic, elegiac, or ironic, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth.n nFrom Scrapbook n nWe believe in the one-ton rose nand the displaced toilet equally. Our blues n nassume you understand nnot much, and try to be alive, just as we do, n nand that it may be helpful to hold the hand nof someone as lost as you.n