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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Chris Dusterhoff is the publisher of SPREAD: The Monthly Journal of Poetry as well as numerous chapbooks. He lives in Seattle, WA.
Review of Memory’s a Bitch by Tanner Boutwell
Memory’s a Bitch
by Tanner Boutwell
Poetry Society of America, 2018???
If you like your poetry to be hard-boiled cinematic vignettes a la Todd Moore and others in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, you should track down this chapbook by Tanner Boutwell. He recently gave it to me at my 50th birthday and I love it. I know it’s a cliché to say a poem stopped you and you spent 20 minutes re-reading it just to enjoy it but that is exactly what these poems did to me. I’ve read imitators but Tanner has really done it with opening lines like “tell em to call it/off he said we got 48/miles and 6 cops on our/ass cause she tore a/razor through her wrists”. He continues the tradition of stripped down and brutal poem/movies and when done well, what I call New American Haiku.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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