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Overview
A poet’s novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement.Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text’s trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo—courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold—it listens as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself.
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Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07/07/2026
ISBN-10:
1643623117
ISBN-13:
9781643623115
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Nightboat Books
