Full Description
Distributary picks up where the speaker from Quiver left off and delves deeper in that speaker's concerns and fears around fatherhood, cultural violence and his daughter's illness. It is a book of sirens and ghosts, of time collapse. How many moments tangle and spark in the waking moments of our lives. It houses a grainy melancholia, paradigms of grief. Houses hope.
Contents
Author's Note
America
What I mean when I say water
Like Ruin
Witching Stick
What I mean when I say God
Malignant
I've been told to write about anything
Chimera
O Mother, The Music: With a Nod to Terrance Hayes
To the therapist who says it's time to move on
Distributary
Divining
Carbon Pressure
Fevered Clove: With a Nod to Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Notes On Time Collapse
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Memory
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May 24th,2023
May 24th,2022
It has been so hard to write
Boy Fury
Olivia Rodrigo, Van Gogh, This Viscous Light
Rupture
Tether
St. Veronica
Sweetheart
After The Funeral
Beetroot
DoppelgÄnger
Dagger: With a Nod to Phil Levine
On the first anniversary of my father's death, I
Bless The Mouth
Acknowledgments
About the Author
