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  • 03/2015
  • 0990903532
  • 132 pages
  • $14
What To Do If You're Buried Alive

Adult; Poetry; (Publish)

This will be my fourth book-length collection of poems, due out in March or April. Subjects include Fidel Castro, Iowa high school wrestlers, rotary phones, tornadoes, quantum physics, ice cream, suicide, Buddhism, and of course, my childhood.
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George Bilgere (back cover blurb)

Listen to this little sample of Michael Meyerhofer’s music as he recalls working in an Iowa warehouse, avoiding “forklifts / steered by broken marriages / and thermoses full of Jim Beam,” or remembers how his mother’s failing heart “kicked up grave-sod like an errant mule.” Whether he’s describing the brutal machismo of Iowa high school wrestlers or the tenderness of his father nursing his childhood wounds, Meyerhofer sings in a pure American tenor, his voice haunted by late night diners, small town heartbreak, and somehow, out there in the desolate vastness of the heartland, a flash of humor and a sweet glimmer of hope.

Jon Tribble (back cover blurb)

Between the marks the world leaves upon us, the designs we choose to mark ourselves and our world with—these scars and tattoos are the territory Michael Meyerhofer explores in his new collection of poems, What to Do If You’re Buried Alive. Through pain and loss, Meyerhofer’s poems are honest and harrowing prayers searching for the “charms of language” that might lead to forgiveness, to redemption, to love. While never flinching from confronting the irredeemable damage we do to one another, these urgent and necessary poems remind us, “that if you focus on what hurts, / face it wholly, it dissolves / like a light from a burnt-out bulb, / a curtain gone up in flames.”

Mary Biddinger (back cover blurb)

Set against a backdrop of brilliantly rusty artifacts, and infused with personal history, this book showcases Meyerhofer’s skill at advocating for overlooked people and the places they inhabit. With a compassionate eye, and his trademark sense of humor that hooks readers from the very first page, Meyerhofer sends us back to our own earliest memories, and shows us a world of heartbreak and wonder.

Formats
Paperback Details
  • 03/2015
  • 0990903532
  • 132 pages
  • $14
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