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Small Talk Symphony by Joshua Lillie

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Small Talk Symphony is an exercise in wandering, a series of deep breaths and slow exhalations spent navigating home. The directions contained revolve around withstanding, resisting, and belonging in a modern world. If depression is anger turned inward, then anger must be the muzzle bent backward. These poems aim to keep their fingers off the trigger while always ready for the worst.

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Joshua Lillie is a bartender in Tucson, Arizona. He was a finalist for the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize Contest from Write Bloody Publishing. In his free time, he enjoys searching for lizards with his wife and cat. This is his first book.

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Joshua Lillie‘s writing is like noticing something ordinary–say a fence that needs mending in front of any house on any street in America–and then doubling back two or three times before realizing that it’s not really a fence, but a line of demarcation between reality and the actual truth behind this reality.

–Eric Roller

 

 

 

 

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