num_pages: 80
description: Poetry. "Rather than introspection, sensationalism, or mere entertainment, remembering becomes an act of engagement, one that propels the poet toward a fierce intellectual and moral reckoning. And we in turn are held rapt by the lyric enactments of this poet who takes dangerous materials into his hands; who stubbornly pulls at the poisonous sumac obscuring a furnace's ruins; who probes old wound, transfiguring them into new patterns. MURDER BALLADS is wondrous and essential reading, a compelling debut"—Jane Satterfield.
language: English
title: Murder Ballads
titlecomplete: Murder Ballads
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 80
publisher: Elixir Press