Desecrations

A luminous new collection of poems about entering middle age, living a life of books, and trying to know what it means to be or not be from or of a place.

If pattern is information, and verse the mind''s conversation with Time, Matt Rader''s Desecrations animates a theatre of silence we recognize as mystery. Building on an already astonishing body of work, in lines so fluid and uncannily resonant t...