Click here for an interview with Jason Koo and Justin Maki of Brooklyn Poets.
In the Gun Cabinet comes out of these complex personal relationships to family, paternity and brotherhood; placelessness; state violence; and on a very basic level the knowledge that the hand that fed me as a child is the hand of death. It’s one aspect of my life—who I am—that I needed to put down in a time of war.
You can also hear me read a short excerpt from In the Gun Cabinet: