Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion

by Gregory Crosby

Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion is just that—the thoughts that arise as you turn your back on whatever catastrophe of air and light is blossoming in your wake and press forward as best you can, the roar in your ears turning somehow into poetry. Among the shrapnel: time, mortality, culture, dead twins, funeral strippers, lonely Starbucks lovers, apocalyptic elections, ennui, extended plays, injustice, aubades, Pluto, sex, loneliness, Bowie, Batman, strange dreams, reading comics by flashlight, democracy in ruins, racism, hope, melancholy, masks, pierced tongues, lost souls, scarecrows, violence, love, American twilights & resistance, resistance, (nevertheless) resistance. Also a dog, barking in the distance.

Genres: Poetry

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 10, 2018

Reviews

[Jaq Greenspon · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are poems which define the age they come from and are thereby timeless. They are also poems for people who don't necessarily like poetry. They're deceptively simple and absolutely get under your skin!