Todd Hearon / No Other Gods (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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Todd Hearon’s second collection, No Other Gods, draws richly on his gifts as poet and dramatist. From the sonnets and nonce-forms interspersed throughout, to its central thousand-line verse monologue, No Other Gods strikes the full octave with a jazzed, symphonic roots-music. In its play of masks and voices, one meets a pantheon both sacred and profane—Mnemosyne, Priapus; memory and desire—from Pasiphae, “that daughter of the sun,” to a junked-out “toothless whore named Cookie” of our own century. With mythopoetic propulsion and expanse, No Other Gods is, ultimately, a paean to the human imagination, the force that in the face of negation and nothingness, “sings well into the night.”

These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages