Practical Gods

Carl Dennis · 2001 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Conversational meditations in which the speaker imagines minor gods, other lives he might have led and the small decisions of ordinary people in an American town. The gods are practical because they ask for nothing more than attention. A lyric collection, quiet in register and unusual in addressing the reader as a neighbour.

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