So What?

by Hayden Church

In So What?, the second collection from Hayden Church, poetry channels spirits of the past, specters skulking around the void, slogging through the detritus of time. The great Jackson County War, an invasion by the Great Possums, ravages the New South. Moses, a man in trouble, looks out from the pier, horrified, with a vision from God. Richard Nixon, in exile, surveys the landscape of American politics. John Wayne's ass. Love as chattel. Gomer Pyle. Tortured fantasies. Brief misunderstandings. Haunted, entropic what-ifs.

Poetry won’t bring any of it back.

But so what?

88 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2022

Reviews

[Kosta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hayden Church wields his humour intelligently to disarm the reader and prepare them for the sentimental insights found in these poems. In So What, Church often invites you with a smirk, only to reveal a hidden seriousness. The poems in this book are just as often plainly serious, but it is Church's willingness to be light that makes clear their sincerity.

[David Kuhnlein · Rating 5 out of 5]

The poems in Hayden Church's So What? are as beautiful and mysterious as snow in the American South.