Disfigured Hours Book cover type:Paperback this book is the fulfillment

this book is the fulfillment of a final promise from a mother to her son when his journey on earth ended too soon

On a beautiful summer morning in Minnesota a crop duster spots a naked body laid neatly in a ditch between two new home building sites

Meticulously researched this sweeping tale blends fictional characters with the Icelandic sagas and the beauty and contradictions of ancient Toltec culture

the poems are spare

Disfigured Hours Book cover type:Paperback this book is the fulfillmentB Batchelor writes, with unsparing precision, about life in a cage. "This is not a gentle place everything hurt and hardened into feral survival." In searing images, Disfigured Hours bears witness to the daily, sometimes hourly, cruelties of America's carceral behemoth. These twenty four poems each with sixty syllables, representing the minutes in the hour offer a record of both human and inhumane moments experienced during more than two decades