Moordener Kill

<p>In the original Dutch moordener is murder and kill is creek. In this powerful collection of poetry we follow these dark waters through a remarkable series of landscapes – real and imaginary past and present personal and political – joined in this journey by a ragtag mix of characters from pop culture literature and the visual arts among them James McNeill Whistler Dorothy Kilgallen Ronnie Spector and Simon of Cyrene. Conjuring “nests of stinging terrors / sequestered in clenched fists” these are poems for our precarious times poems which believe we must look back to look forward – not for the sake of easy nostalgia but to tell our stories truthfully: “manifest destiny memoir grand guignol.”</p><p> </p>