InquestMichael McGriffLabel: White Pine PressDescription: A blend of the low-rent sociology of Raymond Carver with the quirky imagination of Richard Brautigan.–Billy CollinsMichael McGriff’s book-length poem Inquest is an oblique ode to Pablo Neruda’s posthumous masterpiece The Book of Questions. Each sentence is rendered as an unanswerable query be that a consideration of poverty aesthetics place Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations the absurdity of everyday life the exhumed body of Pablo Neruda or the sanctity of common objects. Deeply surreal and humane this collection centers unknowing and wonder as twin forces central to self-articulation social witnessing and survival.
