All Empty Vessels by Aaron Kent and Stuart McPherson Burning Eye Books Manuela Palacios

Manuela Palacios

demanding instead an utter—and utterly pleasurable—immersion

memory and what it is to have loved and lived

yet they’re suffused with the hard-won wisdom that the communities we build can be as meaningful as the families we’re born into

All Empty Vessels by Aaron Kent and Stuart McPherson Burning Eye Books Manuela PalaciosAll Empty Vessels is an urgent, emotional commentary on what it is to exist in our contemporary world. Aaron Kent and Stuart McPherson each taking 6 sections of 6 poems each, explore topics as widespread as the class system, Edgar Allen Poe, and the lyricism of night. Even poetry and poetics itself becomes a subject of scrutiny. In the hands of these two poets, these themes become an eclectic, fluid tapestry of ideas that mold themselves around both