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--Mark Sampson

A Brief History of the Short-Lived defies description--it must be read to be believed

from poets in their late twenties to those in their mid eighties

for whom this is nothing more than an alternative to talking about the weather

Cut to Fortress Product Form:Paperback / softback he brings to it aDescription A stunning debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief and intergenerational wounds. Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonization through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all together in this contemporary existence. With an upbringing in Surrey, fraught familial conflicts, the passing of his older brother and its