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KOMMA SERIES No. 14 :
“Our Church Is Here ”
by Marcel Inhoff
// published in 2018
// sale price $0.85
// poetry
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by Marcel Inhoff // a Pen & Anvil chapbook
Marcel Inhoff

Marcel Inhoff is completing a doctoral dissertation at the University of Bonn. He is the author of the collection Prosopopeia (Editions Mantel, 2015), and numerous poems and essays in German and English. He is currently working on his first novel.

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“a tremor in the water / the country shivers / and Susanne’s laughter / hovering over the Wupper river.”

//from “Susanne”

These eleven poems, written in various tonal periods over the past six years, are a most representative selection of Inhoff's poem-writing as it has evolved to date. Currents of religion, culture, language, and longing intertwine throughout, working at times through and sometimes against an overall tendency toward pathos and seriousness.
About this chapbook series:

These bite-sized booklets are a mouthful of literature each, intended to be read in a single sitting. When you’re done with one, pass it along! Look for them lying around in Boston, Portland, or New York City. When you see one waiting to be read, go ahead and pick it up. Give it a home in your hands for a ten-minute lit snack. Then when you’re finished, leave it behind for the next person to find, in an ATM lobby, on a train station bench, in the coffeeshop, at the pub.

To request a single copy of any chapbook in the series, or a set of copies in bulk quantity so you can pepper them around your neighborhood, just contact the Pen & Anvil Press and we can put a plan together to mail some over to you. You can reach us via the good folks at the Boston Poetry Union, at 139 Mt. Vernon Street, Fitchburg MA 01420. If you don’t have a stamp, feel free to send us an email.