Black Flowers: Poems | Doug Ramspeck
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In dark, lyrical verse, Black Flowers follows a speaker from childhood into adulthood, as he navigates the animistic world of crows, conjurings, and winter snows. Doug Ramspeck guides readers through the brutality and beauty found in the natural world: the moonlight, marrow-white, severed, falling bodily / to grass, the hours as permeable as clay and dust lifting across the road / as though to form a human shape. By juxtaposing euphony and clear, startling imagery, Ramspecks novelistic new collection molds the landscape to reflect the speakers memories and the challenges of growing up in a dysfunctional family. In the tradition of William Wordsworth, Black Flowers brings the flourishes of the Romantics to the grit of the present day.
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