Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire.
Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears ``a swarm of objects that call without being answered`` hospital crash carts, lawn. ``Except Thou Ravish Me,`` reimagines John Donne\'s famous ``Batter my heart, Three-person\'d God`` as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence.
In a section called ``Over the Bright and Darkened Lands,`` canonical Poems are torqued into new shapes.
Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire