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"In the original Dutch, moordener is murder and kill is creek. In this powerful collection of poetry, we follow these dark waters through a remarkable series of landscapes - real and imaginary, past and present, personal and political - joined in this journey by a ragtag mix of characters from pop culture, literature and the visual arts, among them James McNeill Whistler, Dorothy Kilgallen, Ronnie Spector, and Simon of Cyrene. Conjuring ""nests of stinging terrors / sequestered in clenched fists,"" these are poems for our precarious times, poems which believe we must look back to look forward - not for the sake of easy nostalgia, but to tell our stories truthfully: ""manifest destiny, memoir, grand guignol."""

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Moordener Kill is a collection of poems of loss and beauty by Paul Genega. The title poem sets the scene, shocking, by way of perfectly placed words: ...like a secret that stays dark / and where it leads / eventually you don't / know and don't care. But Genega forces us to care; a wash of truth, cold-eyed yet tender, runs through each stanza. I watch sky boil into night, / look out on the garden / the stand of pine I put down as saplings, and I whisper / to my good hound, yes, you're right.... This is a poet at the height of his powers; this is a book to be read and read again. --Bertha Rogers, author, Wild, Again

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"Paul Genega is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, most recently Sculling on the Lethe, from Salmon Poetry in 2018. Among his many awards are the ""Discovery"" Prize (The Nation), the Lucille Medwick Award (New York Quarterly), the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards (Paterson Literary Review) and an individual fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Professor Emeritus at Bloomfield College, New Jersey, where he founded the creative writing program and served as chair of Humanities. He is also editor of Three Mile Harbor Press (www.3mileharborpress.com) which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2019. Visit him at www.paulgenega.com."

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