Books in the Contemporary Poetry series

This collection of poetry, Joshua McKinney's first, shows immense devotion to and passion for language in all its aspects. The poet attends to words and delights in the play of accidental connections and complications.

A philosophical, tough and often funny inquiry into 21st-century selfhood, this collection takes shape in the shadow of Dante's ""dark wood"". The poems are sonorous, sly and sexy. They are political in their address of gender through reference to pop songs, poems and personal experience.