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Mortal Trash: Poems
Mortal Trash: Poems | Kim Addonizio
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Kim Addonizios voice lifts from the page, alive and bitingunleashing wit with a ruthless observation.San Francisco Book Review Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash 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 Donnes famous Batter my heart, Three-persond 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 Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth. From Scrapbook: We believe in the one-ton rose and the displaced toilet equally. Our blues assume you understand not much, and try to be alive, just as we do, and that it may be helpful to hold the hand of someone as lost as you.
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GatheringBooks
Mortal Trash: Poems | Kim Addonizio
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#PoetryMatters Day 10: #Stall - such a powerful poem.

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dabbe Holy moly. 💙💚💙 11mo
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slategreyskies
Mortal Trash: Poems | Kim Addonizio
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Read this in one huge gulp of a reading session. I may reread it, since I read it so fast the first time. Afterwards, I sat down and wrote and wrote. For me, that‘s high praise.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!!

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merelybookish I love her poetry! 2y
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jmofo
Mortal Trash: Poems | Kim Addonizio
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Dating is not my thing. But. If it were, this sounds pretty much exactly what I‘d be looking for. I checked this out from the library and I am very glad I did. There is some rawness and discussion of medicating to be functional, mentally and emotionally. And so much is about things not going the way they were originally envisioned. And there are funny gems like this embedded here and there.

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Lindy
Mortal Trash: Poems | Kim Addonizio
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I felt like I was floating when I came out of the Poets in the House event at #VWF2017. Kim Addonizio was new to me. Eileen Myles and Hera Lindsay Bird were great. I want more. 😊

slategreyskies OMG you got to see Kim Addonizio!!!???? I love her!!! 😍😂 6y
slategreyskies I am so happy for you! That sounds like so much fun!!! :) 6y
Lindy @slategreyskies Thanks! I'm having a great time and I'm happy to discover new-to-me authors. 😊 6y
vivastory I really enjoyed Kim Addonizio's memoir 6y
Lindy @vivastory Thanks for the recommendation. 😊👍 6y
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