The Minuses - Mountain West Poetry Series | Contemporary American Poetry Book for Literature Lovers | Perfect for Book Clubs, Poetry Readings & Literary Gifts

Here is a collection of poems for anyone desiring to penetrate the hiddenconnections within all agonies environmental, emotional and physical.In The Minuses, Macarty proves no corporeality is free from betrayal,alienation, and decay. In distilled, diamond-cut lines, the poet thruststhe reader through phantoms containing nexus points of possession and loss:The café customer mutters a body part and a man’s name/plastic lids startle/the floor’s scuffed wood/a man comes in/a man goes out/a window captures/the one looking in The constant sheering away of façade via intensely focusedand tactile language reveals an ocean of empathy for the pain often entombedin sealed-off monoliths we carry alone and in secret. A truly transcendent workthat freezes the dance of predator and prey to examine how both are ourselves,our hopes and our world. With ever-fresh music and syntax, The Minuses requireonly a glance for the reader to be fully immersed. A stunning book that reminds usin our times of drought that At this hour any god is rain.