A5, 76 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025

Manhole, e.g., an opening to a confined subterranean space: typically a shaft or a vault; a portal or access point to an "underground public utility." Sam Wright Fairbanks presents us a forbidden, malware riddled deep torrent .zip file palimpsest of acutely randy and counterculturally incisive verse with his poems in this maximalist amulet. The exclamatory is alive here: "visit my dilapidation sometime, sweet guy," like some lost psalmaic New York School acolyte on a steady diet of imageboard scrolling, Wikipedia wormhole journeying, and peach Celsius IV drip, all with the juiciest, utmost, and queerest sincerity. And that's good, sis. "Note the finer textures of dystopia," indeed--take a big big hit off the little brown bottle and let this collection move into you with a bit more ease.

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