Our second winner of the 2024 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Burial Fragments by Keith Ekiss is available now from Gunpowder Press.
“San Francisco, the millennial city: Mission and Market, bars and cafes, hills, bridges, and ocean. To read the pages of Keith Ekiss’s Burial Fragments is to follow a gorgeous thread of urban encounters until you reach the center of the anxious, frenetic, marvelous, and random maze that is life and fatherhood at the edge of America and the 21st century. Ekiss’s subtle prose-poem portraits read like novels in miniature, while his meditations on panic attacks and raising an only child unfold with such distilled precision, you feel their power like current through a wire. As with the city it honors and elegizes, this memorable collection reveals evocative surprises everywhere you look.”
—Maria Hummel, author of Still Lives