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Mortar

by Christopher Shipman

  • 124 pages
  • Publisher: Brick Road Poetry Press, Inc.
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm

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For those seeking a poetic voice in times of grief.

Transforms deep personal trauma into lyric witness.

You will find comfort in this honest, raw journey.

An evocative collection of poetry that explores trauma, memory, and the persistent search for healing.

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In Mortar, Christopher Shipman confronts the legacy of his grandmother's murder and the weight it presses across generations. Moving by accretion-prose, lyric, and fragmented poems, each layering fact, dream, and invention-the collection returns to the brick with incantatory force, at once the weapon of the crime and the figure of its aftermath. "The night is long, I mean generations," Shipman writes, and the poems enact that long night's tension, always approaching the house of the murder, always on the verge of witnessing the violence itself, "like the scene in the movie that scatters birds." Alongside these hauntings, life persists: a father with his daughter, a husband pursuing simple dailiness. Restless, inventive, and tender, Mortar transforms trauma into lyric witness-a fearless book haunted by what it cannot release. -Kerrin McCadden, author of American Wake

  • Title

    Mortar

  • Author

    Christopher Shipman

  • Publisher

    Brick Road Poetry Press, Inc.

  • Published

    November 2025

  • Weight

    237g

  • Page Count

    124

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781950739141

  • ISBN-10

    1950739147

  • Eden Code

    7377121