Trash Poems

<p><em>Trash Poems </em> is a collection of poems from daily writings on found items: receipts coffee cups gum wrappers and even a leaf. Each poem was written in the moment with no thought to spelling or grammar leaving the raw words of the moment on the page. <em>Trash Poems</em> is more than a book of poetry it is a revolution and a movement. It tells us it's okay to just write there are no pre-requisites. And at its heart it is full of raw poetry.</p><p><br></p><p>??How ecstatic (and envious!) I am reading <em>Trash Poems</em>. Alex Z. Salinas has manifested a masterpiece of meditative poesy-one part eco/urban art book one part ADD <em>Leaves of Grass </em>all parts adhering to the Beat's first thought/best thought. From macro ruminations on family and mortality down to micro observations of a BIC pen a persistent gnat a looping Kanye video Salinas takes note of impermanence with a haiku master's eye/mind dashing it down on the lost and found objects around us: receipts cups wrappers napkins. All of it trash. <em>How easily these words can be ash-</em>a nugget left buried for us within a pithy political poem. But no worries gentle reader this book will be there for you when you need it. These messages-not-in-bottles scooped up and cataloged for our convenience. <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Harold Whit Williams author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Rain Ancestral </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and guitarist for Cotton Mather</span></p>