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Detainee by Miguel Murphy

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5.0

Oh man. This is a poetry collection devoted to unreasonable urges and burdensome desires, "our juices aching in / our meaning, our listening meat," full of vulgar visionaries and ecstatics, rhapsodizing fetishists like the man who "wanted to watch / nightmare's mouth / scatologically / blossoming...the devil's / eye-mouth open," and asking if love could be the desperate need between "the one / German, who since childhood fantasized being eaten alive. / The other, to literally eat him." Excellent.