The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing triggered the poems in Ed Barrett’s The Sinatra n, poems that race across these pages with lethal riptide quickness. Barrett’s Boston is not the prophetic :city on a hill” that its Puritan forefathers claimed it would be. It is an ocean city, a tidal landscape built over shifting landfill, underground rivers and an underworld of religious, violent dreams of unconditional transcendence.
The Sinatra n is Barrett’s twelfth collection of poetry and his sixth book of poems published by Pressed Wafer.