Sacred Versions of the Profane by John Dorsey

*Pre-order. Dispatch begins 28 February 2026*

Sacred Versions of the Profane moves through river towns, hospital corridors, rusted steel, memory lapses, and half-lit rooms. John Dorsey writes from within the ordinary and allows it to open into something less certain. A couch becomes a mountain. A car becomes a time machine. A city holds both sweetness and rot.

These poems hold exhaustion without spectacle. They move between the intimate and the historical, where Bethlehem Steel sits beside snowflakes on a tongue, and where Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound flicker through working-class landscapes.

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EDITION DETAILS
• Limited edition of 56 copies
• 50 copies numbered for sale
• 24 pages
• 148 × 148 mm
• Saddle-stitched
• Printed on recycled, uncoated stock
• Designed by Marc Brüseke
• Published by Analog Submission Press

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Dorsey is former Poet Laureate of Belle, Missouri. He is the author of several collections, including Which Way to the River: Selected Poems 2016–2020, Sundown at the Redneck Carnival, Pocatello Wildflower, and Dead Photographs.

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POSTAGE & DELIVERY
Orders are sent via standard or tracked services depending on the option selected at checkout. Tracked orders include delivery confirmation. Delivery times vary by destination. International orders may be subject to customs delays. Pre-orders dispatch from the stated release date.

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PRE-ORDER NOTE
Pre-orders include three A6 mini broadsides reproducing cover artwork from John Dorsey’s previous Analog Submission Press chapbooks. Printed on assorted coloured card stock.