Broken Cage - Softcover

Joseph P Wood is the author of four books and five chapbooks of poetry, which include YOU. (Etruscan Press) and Fold of the Map (Salmon). His work has appeared in venues such as Arts & Letters Daily, BOMB, Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, and Verse, among others. Wood has held residencies at Djerassi and Artcroft, and is currently managing editor for Noemi Press. He lives in Birmingham, AL.

These poems are so beautiful it makes you want to rip your face off. The pressure of them is profanely intense; like just reading them might make me sweat. They feel like they re going to explode in my hands. -Nick Demske --Book Jacket

[Wood's] poems attempt to make sense of the mind s eternal repetition / of blankness. Wood asserts that autobiography pages / a pointless asking, but none of the questions that emerge here are futile. These poems arrive with the shrapnel of epiphany only the mind can create. -Adam Clay --Book Jacket

[Wood's] poems attempt to make sense of the mind s eternal repetition / of blankness. Wood asserts that autobiography pages / a pointless asking, but none of the questions that emerge here are futile. These poems arrive with the shrapnel of epiphany only the mind can create. -Adam Clay --Book Jacket