This Warehouse Manufactures Thirst, by Andrew Rader Hanson

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

In his debut chapbook, Hanson assembles memory, reflection, and lament into a portrait of the artist as a roving student, witnessing the antinomies of the late neoliberal order alongside the world’s marred but immeasurable beauty.

The chapbook tracks these polarities of beauty and doom through the Brutalist edges of London to the dankening mangroves of South Florida, from the acid inlets of the ocean to the emaciated alleyways of the streets.

In the process, the poems summon visions of apocalypse in the sunsets that are cross-cut by shadows of narrowing possibilities for human life, love, and freedom.

Andrew Rader Hanson is a poet and photographer, who lives in South Florida. In his free time, he lifts weights, hikes, practices his languages, and reads widely. His work has been published by Spectrum Literary Journal, Pembroke Magazine, The Hong Kong Review and more.