Chris Martin details daily delights, sidewalks and subways, and bulldogs at the park, giving equal attention to all. In his poems, the reader witnesses the fragmentation of the speaker's mind into particles swirling and waltzing until eventually rising into the atmosphere.
Do you explain
ice by acting
slippery?
Simply by moving we implicate the hoax
Chris Martin is the author of American Music, selected by C.D. Wright for the Hayden Carruth Award, and was named one of the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets in 2010. He currently lives in New York.
- ISBN10 1566892597
- ISBN13 9781566892599
- Publish Date 31 March 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Coffee House Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 138
- Language English