They take you on journeys from Pittsburgh to Evansville, Indiana, moving further along through Kentucky to the middle of Kansas. The poems travel through forgotten towns where the unemployment check is a relic from another time. Shawn PaveyAuthor of Survival Tips for the Pending Apocalypse In Jason Baldinger's latest book, "A Threadbare Universe" he takes you on a whirlwind ride to hell and back. These poems have grit and they bite and they leave you speechless at the sheer miracle of being alive on a sunny day, barreling down the road, shaking the city dust and hustling for cash weariness in the winds of the Great Plains. with each first line, creates a little world where we get to look through his eyes while he wields language like it's music syncopated rhythms, the skillful repetition of assonance and consonance, a sprinkling of slant and internal rhyme give these poems structures in which they dance. It's not always going to be a pretty picture, but Baldinger - especially here in A Threadbare Universe - draws you in. The poems get better, get tighter, get more honest. The thing that gets me about Jason Baldinger's work is this: despite being wildly prolific, it's these poems. A Threadbare Universe (Trade Paperback / Paperback)īy Baldinger, Jason Edited by Ryberg, Jason
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