A brave and intimate look at family, trauma, and childhood through vivid and crushing poems.
SANDHOURexplores the interiors of family, home, and place with gravitas and deep concentration. These poems startle and shine, distilling traditional lyric meditation into something new. Ostrom's original approach to syntax reveals larger mythologies at work, charting a course for readers through themes of memory, loss, and the search for meaning.
With highly artful language,SANDHOURis unlike anything you will read this year. This collection is for readers of contemporary poetry who appreciate introspective themes and personal narratives. Discover a powerful voice that rearranges the familiar into something startlingly new.
Robert Ostromis the author ofRitual and BitandThe Youngest Butcher in Illinois. His third book,Sandhour, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in Fall 2019. He lives in Queens and teaches at New York City College of Technology.
Highly artful in their approach to syntax, these vivid and crushing poems stand out (as Ostrom’s poems often do) for their ability to distill and rearrange the traditional lyric meditation.
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