Mike Soto
Mike Soto’s debut book-length work of poetry, A Grave is Given Supper, will be published by Deep Vellum Books in summer 2020.
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The Next Life
The deck of cards we’ve been afraid to part for the unlit side of our lives sits there holding down a table next to a glass of water the sun might have poured. The curandero we’ve put off visiting for years, refusing the bright distance between reason & belief, avoiding the drive from several deserts […]
[Her eyes were a rifle & I was standing]
Her eyes were a rifle & I was standing in the way of the door, & finally when I moved to let her go, the void she threw open became a table, an emptiness born to stand on its head. I ate supper there every day, with forks & knives that had to cut nothing […]
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The Imagination Remains Crucial
Contributor Mike Soto on his new poetry collection A Grave Is Given Supper