Objects in Mirror
by N.W. Downs
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Pub Date Nov 08 2024 | Archive Date Nov 19 2024
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Description
to be a son is to hold the gun. the bullet's in your name but you never knew where to point it, we're halfway / through kansas and i'm making some suggestions.
Hemmed in by highways going nowhere and the men who disappear down them, Objects in Mirror builds an American body out of country music and familial grief. In these poems the dog dies, then dies again, the car un-crashes itself, and familiar radio noises lure brothers away from one another and into the restless west.
Advance Praise
"This collection reads like a meditation on death, family, and the home front. Overflowing with empathy and NW Downs' signature knock-outs and biblical influences, these poems are sure to pack a punch and leave you with more than you started with."
-August Hawley
"Objects in Mirror is a collection that moves, spirals, drives the reader through time, in a blur of motion and memory. Downs' poems erupt on the banks of nostalgia, tender and specific. His writing is intimate and familiar, toying with change, truth, grief and understanding. It is a poignant collection that will leave readers returning to its pages again and again, like a memory they can't seem to let go of."
-Melanie Currie, author of Kaleidoscope
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