Black Aperture: Poems
by Matt Rassmussen
Buy on AmazonWhere did this strange, sad, gorgeous book come from? Matt Rasmussen is a new poet, but also a founder of Birds LLC, one of the hip, up-and-coming poetry micropublishers. His poems trace the lifelong unfolding of the aftereffects of a brother’s suicide in breathtakingly sharp couplets. There are no answers to the questions this book raises, but no one’s ever asked them so clearly.
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"Where did this strange, sad, gorgeous book come from? Matt Rasmussen is a new poet, but also a founder of Birds LLC, one of the hip, up-and-coming poetry micropublishers. His poems trace the lifelong unfolding of the aftereffects of a brother’s suicide in breathtakingly sharp couplets. There are no answers to the questions this book raises, but no one’s ever asked them so clearly."
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