A Way to Waste a Way

By Joseph Pritchard

A Way to Waste a Way is a collection of poetry by a quadriplegic in the Rust Belt. Impaired by the limits of the physical world, Joseph, a village cripple, draws from the infinite expanse of language and abstraction. Metaphor, caesura, anaphora, terms learned in grad school, and applied to a world of clinics, rehabs, nursing homes, ICUs, sitting on the edge, stage four wounds, rolling over acorns with a powerchair, and reaching out hands curled like dead spiders to reel in the kite. A love of thoughts, of pain, of loss. Joseph has found a rough stone to sharpen his knife. Brain rot, beans, shower chairs, decrepitude, titanium rods and pins, weed, totalitarian tools, late night singles call now, section 8 housing, sages and demons, daemons and bikers, all things broken and glued.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5XCF6WY
• ISBN13: 9798280091597
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 77 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"