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Kansas City Gothic

By Alex Tretbar

Kansas City Gothic

By Alex Tretbar

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Kansas City Gothic by Alex Tretbar is a hallucinatory, incantatory fugue of incarceration, addiction, and survival, written in jagged, recursive fragments that chart a psychic and political topography of the American Midwest. Structured around alternating 'movements' and 'codas', the collection draws from jazz, liturgy, and urban decay to form a syntax of rupture and return. Tretbar's lines are elliptical, layered with allusion, attuned to the rhythms of memory and trauma. Across spaces of incarceration, punk houses, hospice beds, and poisoned landscapes, the voice moves with stark intimacy and formal invention. The result is a darkly luminous reckoning with violence, recovery, and the unstable ground between personhood and place.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
52
Release Date:
2025-10-31
Publication Date:
2025-10-31
Publisher:
Broken Sleep Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1917617380
ISBN13:
9781917617383
Weight:
71 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
3 cm
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