The Bone Train (Sampler)

by Katherine West. (ISBN 978-1-882863-70-9) Poems. 6"x9", 112 pages, softbound w/double covers. Art by Michael Bergt. Design/edited by Michael Annis. 61 poems covering a range of anti-war issues, introspective, innovatively styled, politically outspoken; metaphorically resonant: life, death, the dread within desperation, abandonment, the tone & ritual mar of struggle. As desire calls out to the melodic bones of nightmare, quietude lurks like dead flowers on the grave of lovers. Hunted down and plucked like a ripe fig, a romantic heart in remission wades through quarantined cities of love and war and snow. West's ascending and descending stanzas resonate with rage and existential alienation. The poems in The Bone Train were written during a period of re-entry into US culture, between her witness of civil war in Guatemala and the beginning of the war upon Iraq, and reflect all the love, compassion, disappointment and horror attendant upon such a homecoming.

by Katherine West. (ISBN 978-1-882863-70-9) Poems. 6"x9", 112 pages, softbound w/double covers. Art by Michael Bergt. Design/edited by Michael Annis. 61 poems covering a rang...

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