What amazes me about the poems in this
book is how elegantly they delve into some really dark subject
matter, but are never once prurient, or mean-spirited. There's
humanity to these observations of people in some pretty awful
situations. But there's also a sense of humor and no judgement. These
things happen. The Blood Dark Sea is the kind of book where you can
be glad they are happening to someone else, and a poet with a keen
eye and flair for the subject matter is there to report back, so to
speak.
This illustration by Jenny Mathews is a pefect visual metaphor for the lives of the people described in the poems of The Blood Dark Sea, a book of noir poems.
The Blood Dark Sea By Dennis Gulling
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