Poetry. In DEAD CARS IN MANAGUA so many things happen: a bug rides an ice cube, a squirrel assumes responsibility, a piece of steak dreams it's a dog, and the detective grows more lost. Stuart Ross's sixth poetry collection presents his most accurate surrealistic observations to date. This book gathers together an absurdist Baedeker of image-driven prose poems about Managua, a blanched and incandescent sequence of affecting narrative poems about hospitals, and a selection of action-packed surrealist poems where Ross shows his experimental New York School cards like never before. DEAD CARS IN MANAGUA showcases the poet's unique ability to dissolve our common-sense understanding of the world, and distill a more potent and pleasurable truth from the remains of sense and reason.

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Stuart Ross is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. He is the author of about a dozen books and countless chapbooks. His story collection Buying Cigarettes for the Dog won the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Stuart is the fiction and poetry editor for This Magazine, a regular columnist for subTerrain, and has his own imprint, a stuart ross book, at Mansfield Press. He was the 2010 Writer in Residence at Queen's University, and has led writing workshops across the country. After half a century in Toronto, Stuart moved to Cobourg, Ontario, in 2009. YOU EXIST, DETAILS FOLLOW. (Anvil Press, 2012) is his seventh full-length poetry collection.