Death Rattle

By John Hughes

Death Rattle is a veritable and kaleidoscopic portrayal of the isolation, joy and abandonment that beats and thrums within the cosmopolite of a city's restless heart. It is a trilogy comprised of poems, narratives, lyrics and aphorisms springing out of Oslo's subterranean streets. The duality of the city and the rural act as a backcloth where love, lust and loss flourish wildly. For Hughes, the city is female, a fleeting, alluring and violable symbol, the rural a sacred poetic resource gilded with solace, delusion and healing. Through choice encounters and an array of personae, the poet bestows with flinty wit, ruthless reasoning and solemn reflection a wistful eye upon the menagerie of the city's inhabitants.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1006059504
• ISBN13: 9781006059506
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Blurb
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"