Demoted Planet

Mournful And Flawless, Bereaved And Elegant, These Breathtaking Poems Bend Low Like Five Widowed Giraffes Teaching Themselves How To Go Under The Limbo Bar Of Grief For The First Time. They Take The Readers Into The Impeccable Sound That A Semi Makes When It Crushes Five Female Nursing Students Or To A Place Where You Cant Ever Gaze At The Cocktail Shrimp Or The Refrigerator And Its Forehead The Same Way. These Poems Have A Way Of Making You Want To Wear Jeans Again After A Decade Spent With A Type Of Lingerie Called Khakis.- Vi Khi Nao, Judge Of The Charlotte Mew Prizewe Often Talk About How Our Experiences-particularly The Difficult Ones-leave Scars That Only Grow Larger With Time, Like Damage Wrought To The Trunk Of A Growing Tree.