Mixtape to Mend a Broken World

A broken world still makes music. In Mixtape to Mend a Broken World, Joshua Davies turns the cassette over and listens from both sides. Side A begins with the body-breath, desire, earth, water, love, and the strange radiance of being alive. Side B widens into public grief-violence displacement, injustice, and the stubborn work of witness. Across ghazals, ballads, concrete poems, elegies, comic riffs, and forms of his own invention, Davies moves between tenderness and outrage without surrendering either. Rooted in Minneapolis yet alert to a larger human fracture, these poems find rhythm in rupture and possibility in what remains. This is not poetry that looks away from damage. It listens for the pulse beneath-and asks whether attention, imagination, laughter, and community can become instruments of repair.

Author: Joshua Davies
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Calumet Editions
Published: 10/07/2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781962834872