Gatekeeper : poems /

"What is the deep web? A locked door. A tool for oppression and for revolution. "An emptying drain, driven by gravity." And in Patrick Johnson's Gatekeeper-selected by Khaled Mattawa as the winner of the 2019 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry-it is the place where connection is dark...

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Main Author: Johnson, Patrick, 1989- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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