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Saturnalia Books, paperback

Publication Date: October 15, 2019

Publisher Marketing: SANDHOUR, the follow-up to Rob Ostrom’s award-winning first book,Ritual and Bit, offers a brave and intimate look at the interiors of family, home, place, trauma, and childhood. With gravitas and deep concentration, the poems ofSANDHOURstartle and shine. Highly artful in their approach to syntax, these vivid and crushing poems stand out (as Ostrom’s poems often do) for their ability to distill and rearrange the traditional lyric meditation. Occasionally, there are poets so original that they chart a course for us as readers, inventing for us (seemingly in real time) the forms that best reveal the larger mythologies at work.SANDHOURis unlike anything you will read this year.