Ishmael Mask
By Charles Kell
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By Charles Kell
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Charles Kell's second collection of poems considers the instability of identity through fictional and religious characters while tackling issues of addiction, incarceration, and loss.
In Ishmael Mask, Charles Kell reminds us that identity is precarious. Kell’s collection is a collage of the journeys and interior lives of various wanderers—from Ishmael, the son of Hagar, to Melville’s Ishmael, and from Pierre of The Ambiguities to Pierre Guyotat. Each poem strips back the mask and beckons us ...






















