This is the second book of poems by Nevada poet Brian Rihlmann. His first book, Ordinary Trauma, established him as a serious and penetrating observer of the harsh underside of American life. In his current book, Rihlmann finds a few touches of hope here and there in the hardships he documents so well. This is a book for anyone who has come through the darkness--or who is still struggling to come through. It is a book for people who believe in hope.

Night At My Throat

Literature & Fiction

Rihlmann, Brian

Poetry

Pony One Dog Press

I'll take nothing from those who've been therein foxholes and firefights up to their elbows in blood their ears filled with screams but after these lives where we're beaten by bigger, older boys ridiculed by teachers shouted at by bosses after the cacophony of machine shops and construction sites the jackhammers the nail guns the yellow beasts that strip the soil even the more serene workplaces have their bells and buzzers a million notifications a day bony little fingers that prod us toward greater efficiency as we labor under looming robot shadows and insomniac camera eyeballs we are goldfish in a tank surrounded by mad children tapping at the glass back at home the neighbors slam doors punch holes in the walls scream at each other every Saturday night

Ordinary Trauma

Independently published

Desert Bloom: 7/21 Down in the Dirt, v185

Kuypers, Janet

Down in the Dirt

Ford, Alan

Lyndon, A J

Sager, Heather

Hardesty, Jerri

Buckley, Lucy Ann

Owen, M. L.

Sievers, Rachel

Literary

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