X Matthew Holmes conniving: 'what next thing can

conniving: 'what next thing can I say that you weren't

" and to "compare scars" along the way

imbuing their agony with a fine and desperate dignity and allowing the reader to be swept along as well

the ferocity of Kathy Acker and Sylvia Plath

ISBN: 9780889711129

X Matthew Holmes conniving: 'what next thing canDescription One of the first lines of X, Shane Rhodes' sixth book of poetry, is a warning: "this book of verse demands more of verse, this book demands perversity." He goes on to write: This book is about where I live, a place still settling, still making the landlaw by law, arrest by arrest, jail by jailits own snow blown Heed this warning. In X, Rhodes takes poetry from the comfortable land of the expected to places it has seldom been. Writing