The Dead Eat Everything / by Michael Mlekoday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mlekoday, Michael, 1985-

Series:

Wick poetry first book series

Wick Poetry First Book Series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book is a document of a particular world, real, wrenched from the poet's life, as if written with a gun to his head or a spike through his heart. Reading it is like opening a damp newspaper wrapped around a big fish just caught, fins glistening, scales shining, one rhymed eye open and looking right at you, daring you to eat the whole thing."-Dorianne Laux, author of The Book of Men"The Dead Eat Everything, Michael Mlekoday's furious first collection, is a cypher of old-school curses, elegy, and wordplay that snaps like gunplay. The book begins with a self-portrait when 'summer was one wet weapon after another' and doesn't stop. Not for a power outage, Catholic mass, or sewer steam. Not for a 'four-finger ring that says DOPE.' Not for the city that repeats itself like breakbeats in the head. The poems in this book are as relentless as a Minneapolis winter. And when the speaker says, 'Scientists have proven that the mouth is the last part of the body to die, ' we understand that the mouth hangs on just to speak poems like these."-Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke"It's easy to forget-because of the brute beauty of the language; because of lines like 'I have made gods / of my skinned hands'; because of the whiplash brilliance roped through these poems-that deeply, ultimately, this is a book of mourning, of sorrow, of loss: for a dad, a Baba, a city, a home. But, to boot, Michael Mlekoday's The Dead Eat Everything is a book of magic: watch sorrows be converted to music. And music, don't forget, makes you dance. Makes you move. Moves you."-Ross Gay, author of Bringing the Shovel Down"The Dead Eat Everything is a haunting-an unsharpened visitation of memories. Each poem unfolds itself as if we are just now remembering stories told to us long ago, simultaneously new and exciting while comforting in their familiarity. Mlekoday's debut collection glows. Let it. Let it light the way home."-Sierra DeMulder, author of New Shoes on a Dead Horse

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword by Dorianne Laux""; ""I""; ""Self-Portrait with Gunshot Vernacular""; ""Dictator, by Which I Mean the Mother Brandishing a Pistol with a Piñata over Her Head""; ""In Minneapolis, My Father""; ""Self-Portrait, Wearing Bear Skull as Mask""; ""First Plague""; ""Self-Portrait, July""; ""The Novelty Doorbell Turns Prehistoric""; ""Forage""; ""Home Remedies""; ""Self-Portrait, Downtown""; ""Baba Sits You on the Kitchen Table and Teaches You All the Old-School Curses""; ""Self-Portrait with Pollination""; ""Going North""; ""Genealogy""

""Self-Portrait, Fat Tuesday""""Departure, the Path Back Puddled Over and Darkened""; ""Don't Ask Why I Stopped Believing in Magic""; ""II""; ""Self-Portrait with Blight""; ""III""; ""Playing Dead Means Different Things to Different People""; ""Self-Portrait from the Other Side""; ""Flood""; ""Self-Portrait with Power Outage""; ""Self-Portrait with Big City Religion""; ""To Vanish, Cover Your Eyes and Count""; ""The Motherland""; ""Self-Portrait Wherein Everything Whirrs with the Spirit""; ""Self-Portrait, after Drive-By""; ""Bobby Hasn't Eaten in Three Days""; ""Cartilage, Cartilage""

""Elegy on Old-School Drum Machine""""Thaumaturgy""; ""Drop""; ""Maker""; ""Self-Portrait, Kneeling""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781612777863

1612777864

9781612777870

1612777872

OCLC:

869286038