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Song Cave, paperback

Publication Date: September 17, 2024

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The poems in Zan de Parry’s debut collection,Cold Dogs, teeter between deadpan humor and heartbreak, producing a new homegrown surrealism. Coupled with the poet’s deceptively simple line drawings, these questioning and conversational poems operate on the sidelines of reason, dictated by human instinct. For readers familiar with the poems of Richard Brautigan and James Tate, Parry similarly travels in the bizarre, absurd, and existential, populating his poems with brilliant moments of heartfelt reverie and amusement. The matter-of-factness of the world perceived inCold Dogsintroduces a compelling and exciting sensibility to contemporary poetry.
Zan de Parrylives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and is a road dog for a tractor auction based out of southern Illinois. He has published multiple chapbooks includingVibraphone(Brest Press),Hennie(Tabloid Presse) andHistory, Memory, Love, America, Syllogism(Amateur Press). He also runs Keith LLC with his brother Matthew Hodges, with whom he co-authored the full-lengthAusterity Brunch(Keith LLC).Cold Dogsis his first full-length book of poems.