How To Tie & Untie Mist

<p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On the surface </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How To Tie & Untie Mist </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>seems to pick up where Hales' previous book</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> left off. But these new poems aren't a continuation so much as a deeper dive into the questions and shifting answers we generate to manufacture meaning. This new exploded annex of poetry goes further deeper wilder weirder once more into the breach explaining everything from how to tie a tie get a job promotion resign from your job pray find redemption grieve approach swans die and make a sandwich. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The book's third section deconstructs selected poems in the previous two sections through partial erasures: new skeletal poems emerge from the mist to contradict the original poems--or to untie their knots revealing their essence. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How To Tie & Untie Mist </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>explores the ordinary and the miraculous the past the future and the mist shrouding our present moment including the current administration's attempts to re-name the visible world and erase history. </span></p>