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while totally unresolved on a human level

and stocked with memorable imagery

and nothing is actual

—Madeliene Thien

-Rena Hanchuk

Next Door to the Butcher Shop Tawahum Bige while totally unresolved on aDescription Acclaimed singer songwriter Rodney DeCroo's second poetry collection, Next Door to the Butcher Shop, explores the permeability of memory and uncovers heart wrenching beauty from shadowy grit. How quickly age descends on us. Our memories are maps to places that don't exist. I was an emperor on a green lawn wearing a white sheet and a paper crown. The birds sang my praises from the hedges and the trees DeCroo unsentimentally recounts moments