Poetry. Chris Martin details daily delights, sidewalks and subways, and bulldogs at the park, giving equal attention to all. In his poems, the reader witnesses the fragmentation of the speaker's mind into particles swirling and waltzing until eventually rising into the atmosphere.
Author City: Brooklyn, NY USA
Chris Martin is the author of BECOMING WEATHER (Coffee House Press, 2010) and AMERICAN MUSIC (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), selected by C.D. Wright for the Hayden Carruth Award, and was named one of the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets in 2010. He currently lives in New York.
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