X Matthew Holmes this collection is chock full

this collection is chock full of deft phrasing and memorable images

" and to "compare scars" along the way

anger and empathy

he suffers through catching fish

X Matthew Holmes this collection is chock fullDescription One of the first lines of X, Shane Rhodes' sixth book of poetry, is a warning: "this book of verse demands more of verse, this book demands perversity." He goes on to write: This book is about where I live, a place still settling, still making the landlaw by law, arrest by arrest, jail by jailits own snow blown Heed this warning. In X, Rhodes takes poetry from the comfortable land of the expected to places it has seldom been. Writing