Trashcans In Love

The poems in CL Bledsoe's fifth collection are at turns funny and tragic self-deprecating and deeply personal as readers have come to expect from the author of the autobiographical collection Riceland. In Trashcans In Love Bledsoe continues to write about the Arkansas Delta of his youth where we were...all looking for a place/to stick our hearts for safe-keeping while the boarded-over windows/of our mothers' eyes watched from graves half dug/but not full yet. Ultimately we aren't looking/ for tomorrow only an eternal today.