Dead Uncles
Kline, Ben / Schwarz, Jerrod
A great chapbook drills deep, yielding such vibrant detail that we cannot help but inhabit the world built before us. That's the case of the bracing, strangely beautiful Dead Uncles, which proposes a reality (and sur-reality) of a sprawling, intergenerational family whose bonds are inflected by sexual transgression. One dead uncle casts a spell for killing barn mice, another keeps his hold on local office thanks to votes tallied from the 'Ceme...