Patient Zero

Tomas Q. Morin

Patient Zero
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country
United States
Published
11 July 2017
Pages
96
ISBN
9781556594939

Patient Zero

Tomas Q. Morin

I will call the voice of this poet a ‘common’ voice… a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing. -Philip Levine, Ploughshares

This second collection from APR-Honickman winner Tomas Q. Morin explores love gone sideways in the lives of lovers, parents and children, humans and the divine. Patient Zero is filled with voices-of all the people, places, and things that surround a life sick with heartbreak. Doors are the wooden tongues of a house, grocery-store cashiers are gatekeepers to the infinite, and food is the all-powerful life force behind every living thing.

From Patient Zero

Love is a worried, old heart disease, as Son House once put it, the very stuff blues are made of, real blues
that consist of a male and female, not monkey junk like the Okra blues or Pay Day blues,
though I think House would agree two hearts of any persuasion are enough for a real blues, if one of them is sick, that sickly green of a frog bitten in two by the neighbor’s dog, all of which makes me wonder about the source of our disease and whose teeth first tore the heart after Adam and Eve left the garden?…

Tomas Q. Morin’s debut poetry collection A Larger Country was the winner of the APR/Honickman Prize. He is co-editor with Mari L'Esperance of the anthology Coming Close, and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. He teaches at Texas State University and in the low residency MFA program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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