Open Book is celebrating National Poetry Month with daily profiles of today's "unacknowledged legislators of the world." Find out what inspires, confounds and delights the poets behind this spring's new releases by following our series.
Wore Down Trust, published this spring with Pedlar Press, is Michael Blouin's newest collection. A stiffly poured highball of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, biography and vodka, Wore Down Trust uses the rhythms and tones of the blues to dip in and out of the lives of Johnny Cash and Alden Nowlan. Publisher Beth Follett describes this book as "a postmodern postmortem of hope, aspiration and mortality, told in voices that ring from the American south and Canada's east coast, in a four bar, roadside lounge arrangement encompassing lost dreams, early morning smoke, late night lamplight and words that hang alone in the evening air."
Michael Blouin will launch Wore Down Trust at Barley Mow in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 27th. Visit our Events page for details.
