Not Quite Essential: Poetry

By Patrick Attaway

Not Quite Essential brings together work from six earlier poetry books: Cornbread Poetry, Titleless, Mediocre Endings, Abnormal Poetry, Spoiled Rice, and illusion/delusion. This volume preserves the poems the Attaway handpicked as his best while including forty new poems never before published.

This isn't simply a retrospective: It's a burial ground and a monument. Attaway writes with biting honesty about art, memory, and futility, asking what it means to leave a mark when no one is looking.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FPVYMHBR
• ISBN13: 9798263733537
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"