Lie Nearest Truth [Paperback]

A brave and beautiful debut from a poet who navigates the haunted world of remembered feelingThe Lie Nearest Truth
Cold, Hungry, & Dry
A Fancied Death In The Cold
Slow Poke
Agony Aunt
Lie Detector Test
Staring Contest
Tonight, To Morning
Perjury
Ms. Highsmith
The Unicorn In Captivity
Ice Cubes So Rarely Are
Jamais Vu
Novelette
Flotsam
Thieves’ Cant
Defense
The Other Side Of A Window
Wakes, Voiced And Silent
Night In St. Cloud
Pull
Hard Times Party Hard
Weathering
Tense
Infatuate
Bretagne
Canopied
Fat Riley
A Morning Mindful
Jasper
Fun House Narcissus
The Dunce Cap
Avoir Trois Métros De Retard
Pastiche Lite
I’m Walking For Sleep
Least Sincere
Sheep
New Pigment
Soirées 100% Rock
Was The Year Still New
The Amselfluh
This Is Worse
The Spiral Jetty
The National Foundling Society SEAN GARRITTY is a Canadian poet and writer who works and lives in Edmonton and New York City.“The speaker in Sean Garritty’s fine first book of poems, Lie Nearest Truth, is—like Baudelaire’s flaneur—a Prince of Incognito. By turns louche and loving, tender and wry, he wanders a landscape of ‘sexualized light,’ ‘the humdrum spectacular.’ His coolly observant eye views through ‘windows of espial,’ ‘displaced mirrors’ a haunting and haunted world of remembered feelings—the bleak morning after the wild night before. In line after line this extraordinary young poet savors ‘the sticky geometry’ of memory’s honeycomb, the bittersweet aftertaste of the language of loss & desire.”