Rapture & the Big Bam: Poems

With funky tempos and stretched, staggering lines, Matt Donovan's poetic sequence interrogates the ways our daily lives teem with beauty and loss, featuring figures engrained in our culture to portray collisions of pleasure with tragedy, including Scott Joplin, John Singer Sargent, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Babe Ruth, and John Coltrane.