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    Slipknot and Other Dark Poems
    Slipknot and Other Dark Poems
    Slipknot and Other Dark Poems
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    Slipknot and Other Dark Poems

    By Michael Potts

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    Slipknot and Other Dark Poems has a few "horror poems," but the poetry is mainly literary poetry covering dark subjects--death, infedility, war, etc. From the small disappointments of everyday life to the inevitable horror of death, these poems bring those events and fears to life. Although the style is different from John Updike's poetry or Raymond Carver's prose or David Lynch's films, the subject matter is similar. A poem in this book may give the reader frisson, or it may carry to the reader a sense of catharsis. They are meant to "show" reality in its rawness, a reality which often seems frightening and out of our control. If the particular experiences in thse poems provoke the reader to once again face the most important issues of life and death, the poems have fulfilled their purpose. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHeartsblood Press
    Release dateSep 27, 2021
    ISBN9798201319519
    Slipknot and Other Dark Poems
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    Michael Potts

    Michael Potts is Professor of Philosophy at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He has three novels published by WordCrafts Press in Tullahoma, Tennessee: End of Summer, a Southern fiction coming-of-age novel, and the horror novels Unpardonable Sin and Obedience. WordCrafts also published Aerobics for the Mind: Practical Exercises in Philosophy that Anybody can Do. He has also published a volume of poetry, Hiding from the Reaper and Other Horror Poems. Michael and his wife, Karen, live with their four cats, Frodo, Pippin, Rosie, and Bilbo, in Coats, North Carolina.

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