Green Burial, by Derek Graf

ISBN: 978-1-9324-1879-8
$17

GREEN BURIAL by Derek Graf is the winner of the 2021 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Contest judge, Kirun Kapur, had this to say about it: “Lush and frantic, GREEN BURIAL submerges us in a dazzling, apocalyptic pastoral. Here we find a brother's funeral and a lover's last drink on the way to rehab as we travel a dreamscape of birds, trash, down-on-their-luck towns, motels and oil derricks. ‘A body falls/ through the galaxies/ inside an opal,’ the poet writes. And so, we do. In Graf's hands the end of the world is both grief-stricken and saturated with an exhilarating, hallucinatory zeal.”

Derek Graf was born in Tampa, FL. He completed his MFA at Oklahoma State University and his PhD at the University of Kansas. He currently lives in New York City. GREEN BURIAL is his first collection.