The Dog I Got in Me Just Mauled My Inner Child

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Releases January 15th

Mark Anthony Cronin
Poetry
74 pgs.
2024
Paperback

A follow-up to LETTER TO BREANN, this book returns to the same ground under altered circumstances. The organizing figure is a theoretical car crash, treated less as allegory than as constraint: a single violent interruption through which thought, memory, and desire keep trying to pass. The narrative stays close to a man moving through the last stretch of his life, driven by the urgency to assemble a usable account of himself before time runs out. Fragmented reflections accumulate—lucid, manic, exhausted—circling moments of clarity that flare and vanish just as quickly. What holds the book together is the tension between that brief lift and the steady pull back toward despair, as understanding accelerates and coherence grows harder to sustain.