Mortal Trash - by Kim Addonizio (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Kim Addonizio's voice lifts from the page, alive and biting--unleashing wit with a ruthless observation."--<em>San Francisco Book Review</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Passionate and irreverent, <em>Mortal Trash</em> transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called "Over the Bright and Darkened Lands," canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. "Except Thou Ravish Me," reimagines John Donne's famous "Batter my heart, Three-person'd God" as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears "a swarm of objects that call without being answered" hospital crash carts, lawn gnomes, Evian bottles, wind-up Christmas creches, edible panties, cracked mirrors. Whether comic, elegiac, or ironic, the poems in <em>Mortal Trash</em> remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth.</p><p>From "Scrapbook" <br /><br /> We believe in the one-ton rose<br /> and the displaced toilet equally. Our blues<br /><br /> assume you understand<br /> not much, and try to be alive, just as we do, <br /><br /> and that it may be helpful to hold the hand<br /> of someone as lost as you.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A brash, irreverent look at the physical and emotional refuse produced in our self-absorbed culture.-- "Washington Post"<br><br>A set like <em>Mortal Trash</em>, so rare and paradoxical in its despairing frivolity, reasserts the art's power to create order, and to instill meaning.-- "Los Angeles Review of Books"<br><br>Addonizio shows how our culture and surroundings will test us again and again.-- "Lambda Literary"<br><br>Comic, elegiac, and ironic meditations.-- "Brooklyn Magazine"<br><br>Only Kim Addonizio could mix Greek myths with psychopharmacology, Dante with a pinging iPhone, heartbreak with plastic pollution, and create a rare cocktail of wit and desire. <em>Mortal Trash</em> offers unparalleled discoveries . . . with humor and grace, soaring from comedy to elegy and back. . . . Stunning.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"<br>
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