Prelude to Bruise Steve Box Hardcovers

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Though Persephone and Hades become closer than ever after she opens up to him about all she has endured

can promise

or the coming polar vortex

Best of 2018 nods from the Washington Post

Prelude to Bruise Steve Box HardcoversBy Saeed Jones. Published by Coffee House Press. Softcover, 124 pages, Prose, 2014. Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."FlavorWire "This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should." ElevenEleven "I get shout happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness, and outright joy."D. A. Powell