American Mastodon

By Brad Ricca

Poetry. Winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award, AMERICAN MASTODON presents a land of absences, monsters, perfect sandwiches, and opposites. Here Sasquatch hides in Sears at Christmas. The night sky remembers a dog that died in orbit, compliments of the Soviets. And here, in the beginning, a five-foot-four human girl was sniffed for by the hounds who stayed on Earth. Ricca presents a surreal world located two steps to the left of our own, capable of not only laughter, but terrible violence and pain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982876629
• ISBN13: 9780982876626
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"