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Overview"""Stolte shows us his favorite parts of hell with calm enthusiasm. His love affair with perdition cools with distance from the inferno, but still proves eternal. There is humor and humility in this complex (but not convoluted) collection of street-kid war stories and dope sick love letters. It reads like a lullaby for the damned."" --Ezhno Martín, founding editor EMP Books ""Nathanael William Stolte always has room for you in his heart. It's warm and metaphysical in there, so be sure to bring your slippers and a flask. Stolte is the everyday-man's man, writing of a simple and humble life. He is often brave enough to call people out on their shit (including his own), writing, ""Being wrong is a universal human condition."" His short pieces land like grenades and his longer pieces spin tales of the intricacies of aging, the nature of perspective, and lessons necessary for becoming a better person. Wherever Stolte may be, I am confident that he is experiencing and writing about that place in its most beautifully authentic form. Like the city, this collection is dirty and tough, mysterious and sentimental. Stolte characterizes his collection well when he writes, ""It's cold / my feet are wet & / I wouldn't change a thing."" "" --Linzi Garcia, author of Thank You ""Some poets are born of the fire that makes the world in all of its beautiful doom, Stolte is one of those poets - let him sing."" --RA Washington, author of BLACK Eunuch" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nathanael StoltePublisher: Stubborn Mule Press Imprint: Stubborn Mule Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.132kg ISBN: 9781950380138ISBN 10: 1950380130 Pages: 96 Publication Date: 02 April 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsNathanael William Stolte's Shoot the Alligators Closest to the Boat is a testament from a funereal witness. It is declarative--part eulogy and part clarion, calling attentions to the social culture and syndromes that permeate it. In sweeps of revivalist joy and meditative silences, it resists becoming its traumas. This collection of poems smells like grief, but that is only an illusion. It is the sweetest sound, grace under fire. --Shayna S. Israel, Plurality Press Nathanael Stolte's Shoot the Alligators Closest to the Boat is tale of everyday struggles with love, anger, empathy, and addiction, though this collection never takes you full circle, because Stolte is still growing, still learning, still making mistakes and it's refreshing that he's willing to admit that here. This book is Stolte's past and present with a few glimpses into what his future might hold, and I can only hope that it's more writing. What you're witnessing is a true coming of age. --John Dorsey, Author of Your Daughter's Country Nathanael William Stolte's Shoot the Alligators Closest to the Boat is a testament from a funereal witness. It is declarative--part eulogy and part clarion, calling attentions to the social culture and syndromes that permeate it. In sweeps of revivalist joy and meditative silences, it resists becoming its traumas. This collection of poems smells like grief, but that is only an illusion. It is the sweetest sound, grace under fire. --Shayna S. Israel, Plurality Press Nathanael Stolte's Shoot the Alligators Closest to the Boat is tale of everyday struggles with love, anger, empathy, and addiction, though this collection never takes you full circle, because Stolte is still growing, still learning, still making mistakes and it's refreshing that he's willing to admit that here. This book is Stolte's past and present with a few glimpses into what his future might hold, and I can only hope that it's more writing. What you're witnessing is a true coming of age. --John Dorsey, Author of Your Daughter's Country Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |