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“From going to and fro in the earth,” Satan replied. “Where else?” Drew Attana asks, but in and among the actual lives that populate our day. The poems in The Forever Parade continue to surprise, coming so suddenly into the world, ripe, fresh, and wet with dew, yet insistently populated with the actual: obsessives, a newly dead junkie, graffiti artists, homophobic spuds, teeth grit, rabid encounters, border waifs, the hush over the catoptric abyss, and more. Each piece is unique, set to its individual rhythms (breath, mind-pulse), native to its own condition, yet each is a fit complement to the passing panoply.
–Skip Fox, author of Sheer Indefinite: Selected Poems 1991-2011
Throughout this collection, Drew Attana follows a gritty thread, showing us the undersurface of ordinary people. It is a collection about daily life, and the characters that inhabit it are imperfect and thus, real. These are poems with narrative weight, and Attana has a great talent for it.
–J. Bruce Fuller, author of Flood and The Dissenter’s Ground
Drew Attana’s The Forever Parade pulls me to return, to again feel the precisely selected and paced language as it rolls through my tired and hungry brain like a massage. Through a slough of horrible beauty, Attana’s voice is visceral, raw, and hopeful at the edge of violence; his is the clichéd but true old soul in a young man’s body.
–Susan Reese, member of the Friends of William Stafford
The Forever Parade
by Drew Attana
$14.99, paper
Drew Attana is a poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Phoebe Literary Journal, Common Ground Review,and Cargo Literary Journal, among others. He studied writing and literature at Portland State and Pacific University as well as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. When he’s not writing, you can find him teaching or pilfering yard sales for rare vinyl records.
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