Vulnerability, prosody, and a beguiling rhetorical performance meet up like an Old West posse in Seven for Boetticher & Other Poems. Are they going after a bandit or the sheriff? Or are they trying to jump genres entirely and just take down the king? A touch shorter than some of Koeneke's other published poems, yet equally formed, these small wonders manage to always feel casual and heartfelt.
Rodney Koeneke lives in Portland, Ore. He's the author of Erutria, Musee Mechanique, and Rouge State.
Vulnerability, prosody, and a beguiling rhetorical performance meet up like an Old West posse in Seven for Boetticher & Other Poems. Are they going after a bandit or the sheriff? Or are they trying to jump genres entirely and just take down the king? A touch shorter than some of Koeneke's other published poems, yet equally formed, these small wonders manage to always feel casual and heartfelt.
Rodney Koeneke lives in Portland, Ore. He's the author of Erutria, Musee Mechanique, and Rouge State.