In the Pockets of Small Gods by Anis Mojgani

Anis Mojgani's latest collection In the Pockets of Small Gods exists in the persistent shadow of grief, incorporating Greek mythos and ancient lore to defy the impossible.

These poems wander through grief, memory, love, and loss with Mojgani’s unmistakable ability to make the ordinary feel mythic and the surreal feel close enough to touch. This collection is a vessel for the human experience, tender and untamed. Like the heroes of old, we cannot conquer all grief, but we can learn to live in spite of it.

Keep this one in your pocket.

I am so used to all the funerals and all the radios talking
I hear I have been made excellent
at doing other things
while still listening for death

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Anis Mojgani is the current Poet Laureate of Oregon. A two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam, he has been published in such journals as Rattle, Platypus, Winter Tangerine, Forklift Ohio, and Bat City Review, amongst others.