A POWERFUL CHAPBOOK collection of thirteen poems, whose broken, surreal landscapes yield haunted visions reminiscent of Stephen Crane's epic masterpieces The Dark Riders and War Is Kind. "The tragic vision of Jonathan Weinert's Thirteen Small Apostrophes reaches far through its singular imagination and haunting diction . . . His use of apostrophe in addressing imaginary creatures becomes a kind of Genesis, summoning a chastened world from one that we've defiled. These are innovative, moving, and memorable poems." Mark Irwin ...
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A POWERFUL CHAPBOOK collection of thirteen poems, whose broken, surreal landscapes yield haunted visions reminiscent of Stephen Crane's epic masterpieces The Dark Riders and War Is Kind. "The tragic vision of Jonathan Weinert's Thirteen Small Apostrophes reaches far through its singular imagination and haunting diction . . . His use of apostrophe in addressing imaginary creatures becomes a kind of Genesis, summoning a chastened world from one that we've defiled. These are innovative, moving, and memorable poems." Mark Irwin, author of Large White House Speaking "In this mysterious and musical collection of petititons and declarations to various entities, human and otherwise, Jonathan Weinert listens attentively as darkness sings its song . . . Any reader alert to exquisite lament will find herself addressed by Weinert's song, sung to and sung for by these thirteen apostrophes that are small only in their length, not in their embrace." H. L. Hix, author of First Fire, Then Birds
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