This Is Still Life: Poems

"An anthem against apathy" --Amelia Martens, author of The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat

Read Tracy Mishkin's poems as an antidote to the "meat wheel full of teeth" that is the contemporary news cycle. Not because this dangerously clever collection soothes, or because it provides comfort, but because these lyrics are urgent without shallow or callous bids for the reader's attention, and instead render the heartbreak of America as gorgeously as an old master's Vanitas--it's the ...