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The poems of Anyone’s Dust mustn’t be read, but rather inhaled and deeply. Jed Myers brings a tenderness and musicality to these lyrics that are obsessed with breath and body, narratively ranging from ancestral trauma to present day anxiety of living in a world inundated with violence. Formally innovative in its conversation with sonnets, duplexes, and contrapuntal, the repetitions, echoes, and refrains sing across time and geography, “to remind you / of what you’ve known, what you are.” It is a beautiful collection that, like breath itself, asks to be returned to again and again.
—Julia Kolchinsky, author of PARALLAX and 40 WEEKS
Jed Myers’ Anyone’s Dust is an urgent but carefully considered collection. Though you sense that these lines are driven by an intense need to define the rough territories that condition the human heart, there is simultaneously a clarity—the kind of well-rendered intricacy that can only rise from patient reflection. Anyone who reads Anyone’s Dust will come away with a renewed understanding of how each life underlines what matters and why.
—Tim Seibles, author of Voodoo Libretto and One Turn Around the Sun