Description: "I will call the voice of this poet a 'common' voice... a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing." --Philip Levine, Ploughshares This second collection from APR-Honickman winner Tomás Q. Morín explores love gone sideways in the lives of lovers, parents and children, humans and the divine. Patient Zero is filled with voices--of all the people, places, and things that surround a life sick with heartbreak. Doors are the wooden tongues of a house, grocery-store cashiers are gatekeepers to the infinite, and food is the all-powerful life force behind every living thing. From "Patient Zero" Love is a worried, old heart disease, as Son House once put it, the very stuff blues are made of, real blues that consist of a male and female, not monkey junk like the "Okra blues" or "Pay Day blues," though I think House would agreetwo hearts of any persuasion are enough for a real blues, if one of them is sick, that sickly green of a frog bitten in two by the neighbor's dog, all of which makes me wonder about the source of our disease and whose teeth first tore the heart after Adam and Eve left the garden... Book shows normal signs of use such as minor creasing and a few cover scuffs.
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Book Title: Patient Zero
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: General, American / Hispanic American, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 4.9 Oz
Author: Tomas Q. Morin
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
