Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith
PBS Summer Wild Card 2020 Jenny Lewis the poems piece the stuff

the poems piece the stuff of their culture into surreal polemic and elegy

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Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith <br><b>PBS Summer Wild Card 2020</b> Jenny Lewis the poems piece the stuffWayne Holloway Smith's second book length book of poetry, Love Minus Love, is an internal universe, fragmented and glued back together with uncanny logic. A strange layering of time, in which multiple things happen at once, in a looping track of intrusive thoughts shot through with dead cows, pop songs, dead dads, the white noise of televisions rotten teeth are raining everywhere. Somewhere at the core of all this, the seemingly fixed boundaries of