Coming Soon:
In Search of Stray Gods
A child opens their chest &
finds a wing...
the circus leaves their
father's guts...
& the barn is still collapsing...
another child's eye leaks like a shotgunned wall...
nails rust in the blood of
your palm...
the wind is thick with ghosts...
Torrin A. Greathouse's first collection is a dark foray into memoir and magical realism, centering around love, haunting, and the search for holiness in the wake of a family's violent past.
Praise for "In Search of Stray Gods"
In these poems we discover the crosscut between catastrophe and beauty; and where they intersect, there is solace, hope and the realization that in some ways, we can write ourselves out of the violence. An emotional and moving exploration of the human experience.
Paul Suntup, author of
Sunset in the Temple of Olives
Greathouse pulls us through the gritty and the sublime. This journey questions rooftops, David Bowie, a gun, memory boxes, women, drugs, death, history, and even the weatherman for evidence of a greater power. Every poem is a sweet taste of but an incomplete answer, leaving the reader searching for more.
Sarah Thursday, author of
All the Tiny Anchors