Graffiti Sundown

Startlingly alive poems from a frisky new voice in poetry. Using poetry as a conversation, Jeremy Shelton urges us towards changing ourselves--and changing our world. Poem after dazzling poem explores how we cling to the status quo and get through our days, and it is all rendered in rich, imagistic language, that's surprising, funny, and occasionally unnerving. We yearn for change and yet fear it, and like the title poem, "Graffiti Sundown," we can't quite read the writing on the wall and our answers remain in shadows. Shelton's antidote is his poems, which like bright beams of light, wake us to pure possibility. Is our purpose really to grow? And why, Shelton asks, do we run from ourselves when we are the only ones who might listen? Brimming with stunning metaphors about the journey that is life, Shelton's irreverent collection of poetry heralds a brilliant new star that lights our way with poems.