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Heart X-rays is a twenty-first-century beat epic poem that ranges across landscapes and voices, with appearances by Banksy, Pussy Riot, hip-hop, the down and out, the up and coming, heartbreak and joybreak, while exploring the mystery we call the human heart.
Now in its second printing,
Heart X-rays offers poetry that strikes a cord today with non-traditional style and timeless poetic craft.
If indeed poetry can offer an RX, a prescription to the bloody joyful teary-eyed American paradox, it is one that calls forth all the voices that have not yet been heard, that harbors an innocence that reaches into the very heart of our own excellence. A collaborative work between two poets and working-class activists,
Heart X-rays is a poetic memory of today written in the alphabet of a future.
About the author
G.H. Mosson is the author of two books of poetry,
Questions of Fire and
Season of Flowers and Dust. His poetry has appeared in the
Cincinnati Review,
Loch Raven Review,
Smartish Pace, and the
Tampa Review, and has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. He published the journal
Poems Against War and an anthology of the same name. Mosson practices employee rights and disability rights law as well as general civil litigation in Baltimore, MD.
Summary
Heart X-rays is a twenty-first-century beat epic poem that ranges across landscapes and voices, with appearances by Banksy, Pussy Riot, hip-hop, the down and out, the up and coming, heartbreak and joybreak, while exploring the mystery we call the human heart.
Now in its second printing, Heart X-rays offers poetry that strikes a cord today with non-traditional style and timeless poetic craft.
If indeed poetry can offer an RX, a prescription to the bloody joyful teary-eyed American paradox, it is one that calls forth all the voices that have not yet been heard, that harbors an innocence that reaches into the very heart of our own excellence. A collaborative work between two poets and working-class activists, Heart X-rays is a poetic memory of today written in the alphabet of a future.
