Unicorn Press, paperback
Publication Date: March 22, 2024
Publisher Marketing: 750 copies of this first printing have been published, of which the first 50 are signed and numbered by the poet. Patti Field hand-set the 14 Joanna type, and Rudy Villanueva hand-printed the book. 200 copies were hand-bound into full cloth by Gordon Thomsen.
--Unicorn Press.
A hybrid of poetry, collage, and essay forms, Monoculture explores the economic, social, racial, religious, and sexual dimensions of currency in America. Travis Sharp begins with cotton crops in the South and follows the tendrils of consequence wherever they lead: into the food we eat, the work we do, the prayers we pray—and into the hungers that are never sated, the work that is never done, the prayers that are never said. Monoculture is a meditation on what happens when we give everything to something that cannot sustain us.
