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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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my husband holds my hand because i may drift away & be lost forever in the vortex of a crowded store

my husband holds my hand because i may drift away & be lost forever in the vortex of a crowded store

Compton, John

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 1963245741
ISBN13: 9781963245745
Publisher: Flowersong Press
Published: Dec 27 2024
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

my husband holds my hand because i may drift away & be lost forever in the vortex of a crowded store, by john compton is, among other things, a clear-eyed examination of the body, its hungers, desires, shames, and pains. It's a book of desires fulfilled, thwarted, and manipulated. The poems explore my body, his body, your body, and her stone body. Bodies that are mercy, burning, rakish, and dampened. They are manuscripts in which life is engraved, or poems spilled out of autopsy with stories that carved poetry into my back. There are dirty boys and sadistic cum stains. For compton, sex is both burden and gift, its fluids and actions work like spells that transform the speakers' wounds into incantations of survival. A new body . . . instead of stretch marks, / . . . has a multitude of hieroglyphics / scratched across its walls. In love with the language his body has held and both born and borne, compton's poems resonate with a deep pulse of the indomitable life force of a survivor: the naked body a rosary / bead tucked in each wound.

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