num_pages: 103
description: Prelude to Bruise is a song from a tightrope balancing ecstatic existence and the chaos that always threatens to engulf a life on the margins. How do we reckon our past without being ravaged by it? How do we use people their bodies to express ourselves? Danger is everywhere in these poems but never overwhelms them; the poet is always an anchor on the other side. And his story carries us relentlessly along.
language: English
title: Prelude to Bruise
publisher: Coffee House Press