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SOMEDAY THE PLAN OF A TOWN (2022)
Poems by Todd Boss
Reeling from marital, parental, and societal losses, acclaimed poet Todd Boss risks everything to be at one with the world, selling his belongings and circling the globe in a series of 30 consecutive housesits. In this, his most recent collection, he alternately inhabits thatched-roof farmhouses, hillside estates, urban apartments, and lush gardens in Berlin, Barcelona, Austin, Austria, Marrakesh, Singapore, Baltimore, Auckland, and more. The poems in Someday the Plan of a Town are his only souvenirs.
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TOUGH LUCK (2017)
Poems by Todd Boss
At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-stopping view of the muscled waters below. Marriage, family, home―all come crashing down, but Todd Boss rebuilds with his trademark musicality and “a reverent gusto for representing the tactile aspects of human life” (Tony Hoagland).
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PITCH (2012)
Poems by Todd Boss
2012 Poetry Midwest Booksellers Choice Award winner
"[Todd Boss] can make any rhyme feel like a concealed weapon." —Sherman Alexie
With poems about loss, home, marriage, and the inner music of our lives, Pitch is a series of variations on an overturned piano. By turns bright and dark like the keys on a keyboard, these poems demonstrate the range of one of contemporary poetry’s most musical poets, a master of internal rhyme.
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YELLOWROCKET (2008)
Poems by Todd Boss
“Sure to be a classic, and the beginning of a long and glorious career.”—Sherman Alexie
Todd Boss's debut collection, set in the Midwest, alternately features a childhood Wisconsin farm, the record-breaking storm that destroyed it, and the turbulent marriage that recalls it. Love and wonder mingle in these lines.
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