concussion fragment

**WINNER of the 2022 Florida Book Award Gold Medal!**

concussion fragment by Brendan Walsh is the winner of elsewhere's 2020 chapbook prize! selected by short story writer and novelist Deb Olin Unferth

this chapbook contains twenty-one poems that chronicle what it means to be a teenager, a wrestler, a son, a singer of "Semi-Charmed Life," and a great ape. the author, Brendan Walsh, has five books and work published in Rattle, Glass Poetry, Indianapolis Review, and other journals. he has been awarded America Magazine’s Foley Poetry Prize and the Claire Keyes Poetry Prize, as well as grants from Fulbright and Broward County Cultural Division.

here's a brief excerpt from "concussion fragment number two-point-five": "all summer when the cold’s flown somewhere far away, we use the fireplace room to wrestle. dead ash in concrete. slate and brick. hardness."

6 in. x 4 in., cover art and interior collages by Evan Nicholls