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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Trailer Park Psalms: Poems

Trailer Park Psalms: Poems

Dustin, Ryler

Paperback

Series: Pitt Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 082296712X
ISBN13: 9780822967125
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Sep 12 2023
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.83 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Longlist Finalist, 2023 Julie Suk Award

Trailer Park Psalms traces the speaker's journey beyond his boyhood trailer park, through an American landscape marked by violence--from a gas line explosion in his hometown to his father's war memories to the scars of colonialism inscribed in place, language, and ecology. Along the way, he searches for sources of awe that might inspire us, even in a compromised world: the everyday miracle of eyesight, the courage of the Voyager spacecrafts, and the clumsy kindness of family members trying to mend the damages of the past. In the end, what he finds isn't faith but the hope that if there's a heaven, we will bend / to examine our old selves / and wonder how something so delicate / was ever allowed.

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