Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen

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Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen

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In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humour. Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning.

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Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen

In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humour. Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning.
Matt Rasmussen's poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, and at Poets.org. A founding coeditor of Birds LLC, a small, independent poetry press, he is a 2012- 2013 McKnight Artist Fellow and teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College.
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ISBN 13 9780807150863
ISBN 10 080715086X
Title Black Aperture
Author Matt Rasmussen
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Louisiana State University Press
Year published 2013-05-30
Number of pages 72
Prizes Winner of Walt Whitman Award 2012, Winner of Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2014, Commended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2013
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