monument by b. p. sutton

In his third chapbook monument, B. P. Sutton invites readers into a poetry collection that uses vivid imagery, visceral emotion, and inventive, thought-provoking word play to interrogate the origins of what idols end up on the tumbledown pedestals of americana. In these five poems that sear with incantations of ritual and rust, he explores the relationships between nature, religion, and sacrifice to create a mythopoetics—a glimpse into a splintered land roiling with burden, invective, foment, and bloat. Sutton examines what fuels the little engines that power our most closely held, most hotly contested beliefs and makes audible some of the timeless questions that we usually only dare whisper to our shadows.