All Black Everything

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Original, jarring, and unforgettable, here is the latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Shane Book.The author of the acclaimed 2014 collection, Congotronic, returns with urgent, forceful, and energetic new poems. Once again, Shane Book's poems take readers around the globe and showcase his talent for layering voice, diction, and rhythm in a staggeringly original and innovative way.The Rio CommuniquéGusts thwacked tarps. Meat smells ricochetedplank to post. We gave up as we can, to another goal:green fruit. No way to know at that very momenta marauding group with a megaphonefiled toward the Candomblé sector, throwing political shadowslike the Mont Ste. Marie snow-making machine noisetwisting narrowly past boulders, ice shelves--steep banked ice shelves too savage for anything butcaterpillar treads--the sound's angle tipped up on its sharpest edgeeach pine needle felt as winter's adventbut also, the clarity that months and months of silencehad ended battering every feather, signaling the strangestpermanence. No snow in this part of the hemisphere, we remember how to use the bowl of teeth, the tealeaf headdress. Still, the specter shuffles closer, farther, waiting, wending like a wasp, a field of wasps, unfinished, pointing a way.