Michael Bazzett

The Interrogation

Michael Bazzett

The third collection from the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize Winner (for You Must Remember This ) Since his debut, author’s profile has increased markedly, with poems from this collection featured in journals and magazines including the Boston Review, Pleiades, The Sun , and the Virginia Quarterly Review Along with publications, author’s network is also greatly enhanced, we expect stronger blurbs and more extensive review coverage for this title

You Must Remember This

Michael Bazzett

A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. “Your humor is deft and cutting / my fingers off one by one,” as one poem puts it. Once dismembered, Bazzett’s poems can re-member us and piece together the ways in which we once thought we knew ourselves, creating a new, strange sense of self.A meditation on who we are, who we’ve been, and what we might become, Bazzett’s writing is like a note written in invisible ink: partially what we see on the page, but also but also the “many dozen doorways that we don’t walk through each day.” You Must Remember This is a consistently slippery, enrapturing collection of poems.