The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross
PBS Recommendation Winter 2022 Jon Thompson circus ring of elastic sanity

circus ring of elastic sanity

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And the trauma experienced through centuries of colonial history continues to be embodied and enacted

an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie-worshipers at a Northern sculpture farm

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The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross<br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2022</b> Jon Thompson circus ring of elastic sanityWith each new collection, Philip Gross poems extend their conversation between the metaphysical and the acutely physical. His sequences in The Thirteenth Angel scan from moment to moment like flickering needles, registering stress patterns in the world around us ebbs and flows of weather or events, in our own bodies, in the city streets before and after the pandemic, or on the autoroutes of Europe with their undertow of human flight. If there are