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If it is possible to make a guitar amp for the soul, to hear what moon, river, barn, and paramour all desire of each other, Amorak Huey has done it in Mouth. Each line is electric, illuminating poems that extend their metaphors, believing to endure in language is to make love endure. Huey leverages, as all evocative poets do, the ways the body's intuition is always two steps ahead of the mind's reflexive need for order. With high fidelity to the philosopher's discursive insight, the concert goer's raw enthusiasm, and the naturalist's tenderness, this collection sings us a bridge toward the chorus of our collective hearts. Truly, he reminds us how, ""It's the listening body / that's fresh. We cannot hear / with the same ears twice."" -Steven Leyva, author of The Opposite of Cruelty

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""The voice of Mouth is confident in its moves, sometimes breath-stopping in its leaps, by turns despairing and lusty, deeply funny, and-always-restoratively human."" -Sandra Beasley, author of Made to Explode: Poems ""A beautiful and tender rendering of both our absurdity and our magnificence. If we must crave and end, and if we must do it in this particular moment of human and geologic time-and, of course, we must-how lucky we are to have Mouth as our companion."" -Molly Spencer, author of Invitatory

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Amorak Huey is author of four previous books of poetry, including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy. Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey is director of the creative writing program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology and the chapbook Slash/Slash. Huey is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series.

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