In the slipstream of speech and not-speech, Brendan Sherry’s Helene or / Dont x baby reckons with the futility of utterance at the threshold, eye, and aftermath of catastrophe. Re-assembling wreckage in a looping soundscape littered with desperate self-talk, baby babble, and averbal scraps, these totaled songs are insistent, oddly melodic, still here.
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Brendan Sherry is a poet based in Duluth, MN.