Each line of every poem in Rusty Morrison’s The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story, a book-length meditation on her father’s death, ends in the words “please,” “stop,” or “please advise.” Readers can ...

Since it was founded in 2001 by the late Ken Keegan and Rusty Morrison, the Richmond, Calif.–based nonprofit publisher Omnidawn Publishing has had two books longlisted for the National Book Award and ...

Russell “Rusty” Morrison harbors no grand illusions about his chosen field. “There are glamorous TV shows about lawyers and doctors,” the Austinite says. “And even movies about reporters going ...

This third—and best—volume from California resident Morrison (Whethering) is also by far her saddest, reacting to the deaths of her father and mother. Morrison’s quiet, melodious pages, in verse and ...

a temporary lifelessness in your eyes where I pour my waiting palaces stop the pearliest part of a memory is lost to its lack of consequence please rub a little chalk on both palms and then reach stop ...