Sacred Versions of the Profane by John Dorsey

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.

A conversation with John Dorsey about Sacred Versions of the Profane appears in The Small Run, the occasional newsletter from Analog Submission Press.

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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

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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.