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Book Synopsis“Kim Addonizio’s voice lifts from the page, alive and biting—unleashing wit with a ruthless observation.”—
San Francisco Book ReviewTrade Review"A brash, irreverent look at the physical and emotional refuse produced in our self-absorbed culture." -- Washington Post
"Only Kim Addonizio could mix Greek myths with psychopharmacology, Dante with a pinging iPhone, heartbreak with plastic pollution, and create a rare cocktail of wit and desire.
Mortal Trash offers unparalleled discoveries . . . with humor and grace, soaring from comedy to elegy and back. . . . Stunning." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"A set like
Mortal Trash, so rare and paradoxical in its despairing frivolity, reasserts the art’s power to create order, and to instill meaning." -- Los Angeles Review of Books
"Addonizio shows how our culture and surroundings will test us again and again." -- Lambda Literary
"Comic, elegiac, and ironic meditations. " -- Brooklyn Magazine
