Beautiful Rust: Poems

By Ken Meisel

Ken Meisel's got the beat in his hit parade of Motown poems. I love his long lines and smoky fires, the effect gravity has on the living and the dead. His Purgatorio includes Marvin Gaye, an echo of better times painted onto a billboard overlooking the freeway and Dubois Street. Meisel is interested in the music of "grassy fields and abandoned places...wild pheasants and drunks." He is our modern Virgil talking us through the Rinaldo Arms Manor. Read him and be saved.

--Russell Thorburn, poet, author of Father, Tell Me I Have Not Aged, The Whole Tree as Told to the Backyard, and The Drunken Piano

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933964324
• ISBN13: 9781933964324
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"