Black Aperture TC_Bestseller twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from

twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into complexities of pre-colonial urban East Africa

But this summer is different

Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists

offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness

Black Aperture TC_Bestseller twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown fromIn his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame of dead you answering calls." In other poems, once ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, "a flower of smoldering filaments." A