
a book
Man vs. Sky
Corey Zeller · 2013 · 76 pages
Poetry. "This is a book by a man who is sputtering gray zeppelin in what used to be sky, a man out of bicycle parts, who likes when trees sizzle and who knows that although there are no angels to speak of out here, the neighbors shout and call the cops for all the noise not there. This book is full of crazy, vital energy. Full of miraculous and mundane, full of coke bottles, subways, cotton swabs, wasps, sharp nipples, and voices from the great soup that Frank Stanford once tried to feed all hungry mouths of America. And, the poet who is the child, stands at the window, as night becomes morning. This too, is magic. Just pick up your feet and watch." Ilya Kaminsky"
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Danez Smith
“In boundless, brief prose poems, Zeller embodies the voice of a recently passed-on friend as he travels through the afterlife. Besides haunting me with its beauty to this day, this collection taught me that we can offer the dead not just our grief but our imaginations and dreams as well.”↗