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John Sweet

Poems


in the great years

god

untitled composition in black and white

landscape made hopeless in the season of rust

the last murdered slave

landscape with falling house

thinking of blue air


John Sweet

John Sweet

John Sweet, born 1968, married, father of two, owner of a slowly collapsing house. Opposed to a great many things, including most formal schools of thought. A believer in poetry as catharsis, and in the necessity of ugliness to help define beauty. Lives in Endicott, upstate NY.

Publications include e-chapbooks: Silence in the House of Truths, 2003, and empires, falling, 2005. Chapbooks, Enemy (2004, PinkAnarchKittyPress), Famine (2004, Leaf Press) He also has a full length collection, Human Cathedrals (2003, Ravenna Press).


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