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title: "Black Aperture: Poems"
brand: "matt rasmussen"
price: "S/.75"
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# Black Aperture: Poems

**Brand:** matt rasmussen
**Price:** S/.75
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- **What is this?** Black Aperture: Poems by matt rasmussen
- **How much does it cost?** S/.75 with free shipping
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Black Aperture: Poems

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## Customer Reviews

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    A poetic symphony
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2022*

This collection of poems centers around the subject of the suicide of the brother of the poetic first person – I am assuming it is the poet’s personal voice but well done if in a persona. The poems work on their own level individually but build up as if a composer were layering instrument over instrument to make a coherent whole. The poems feel youthful, but not like juvenilia but fresh like the spring after a frigid winter.

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    Deserves repeated reading
  

*by V***3 on Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2022*

Rasmussen uses the mundane things around us - parking lot, refrigerator, gun - and the powerful draw of nature to bring us into his artful reflections of his brother’s death from suicide. So many genius moments in his writing. It’s one to consume and then return to consume again. Like any great poetry, I expect it to read differently each time.

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    "Your Life/Was Just A Doorway,/And Hovering Above You/A Red Voice Urging/EXIT.
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2014*

Black Aperture lives up to the hype it has garnered. Rasmussen explores his brother's tragic suicide in Faulkner-esque perspective shifts, moving closer and farther with his linguistic lens to the actual event, its aftermath and the moments preceding it. Honestly, Jane Hirshfeld best captures what Rasmussen is about on the back of this book: "the subject here is the suicide of a brother. What cannot be altered remains; yet by changing saying, seeing is also made wider, more openly porous. The liberations of tongue, word, and conception...restore the possibility-sense."With each poem, Rasmussen moves closer to acceptance and further from understanding. This discursive movement culminates in the penultimate poem, "Reverse Suicide" in which, taking a page out of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, Rasmussen reverses the film of his brother's suicide; leaves "fall up" to the trees and we're back in a familial Eden. But courageously and perfectly, this reversal can't last. So the collection ends with the wonderful "A Horse Grazes In My Shadow," in which the speaker/Rasmussen prays for both the annihilation and purifying of his self: "I wish the god of this place/would put me in its mouth/until I dissolve, until/the field doesn't end/and I am broken down/like a rifle,/swabbed clean."Absolutely wonderful.

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*Last updated: 2026-05-21*