All the Beautiful Dead - Softcover

Christien Gholson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986204927 ISBN 13: 9780986204920

Publisher: The Bitter Oleander Press, 2016

Gholson s All the Beautiful Dead (along the side of the road) is a harrowing, razor-biting collection which addresses the wounded and the outcast, in a landscape of boxcars, poppies, crows, empty fields, the lights of Las Vegas which can t overpower the open black mouth of the desert night, and the rusted lives and emotional shrapnel ranging from Wales to Colorado, New Mexico to Gaza. This poet s range is wide, able to enter the surrealist canvases of Remedios Varo, as well as everyday struggles, such as unemployment, the death of his father. The voice that immaculately gathers all of these rune-like fragments informs us how he has been desperately trying to read them, knowing there is no answer. But the poems themselves are a candle, even if it s flickering. And Gholson s voice is a prayer in the coldest of winters. --- Anthony Seidman

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About the Author:

Christien Gholson is the author of the novel, A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind (Parthian, 2011) and a book of linked prose poems, On the Side of the Crow (Hanging Loose Press, 2006). He attended Naropa University and the University of California at Davis. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico

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