The Air in the Air Behind It

By Brandon Rushton

'With an eye roving like a documentary camera, Brandon Rushton delivers a post-wonder diorama of the contemporary non-urban United States in which the vaunted American lawn is artificial; the food is full of chemicals; and "what haven't we / homogenized." The freedoms of childhood and adolescence are figured here as a kind of lost, damaged paradise before everyone erases themselves into their adult roles: the contractor, the customer, the detective, the pilot, the bank teller, the embezzler, the broker, the milkshake maker. Rushton's often interweaving lines serve as a formal objective correlative for our interwoven state in this world, which is composed of both the given and the made; the question of why on earth we have chosen what we have made is quietly fuming in every poem. "Honestly, the people / had hoped for more space / to feel spectacular." The news about that spectacular feeling isn't good, but knowing Rushton is out there watching, giving a damn, and writing his beautiful poems is reason for hope.'
-Donna Stonecipher

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946482757
• ISBN13: 9781946482754
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"