THE BLOODHOUND WORKS reviewed by Mike Begnal

Author Mike Begnal reviewed The Bloodhound Works by David Stone:

Review:

I’ve written a lot about David Stone’s work already [...], but I just received his newest chapbook in the mail, and it is another great installment in the corpus of one of our most original poets. The Bloodhound Works (published by Propaganda Press / Alternating Current) is subtitled “Selected Poems 2009,” and marks Stone’s response [to] the present economic upheaval the world seems to be undergoing. While his bio at the end of this 4¼” x 5½” pamphlet states that Stone “lives on some scraps from the financial crisis,” many of the poems themselves evoke it:

“The Bloodhound’s Work”

Bus passengers

crashed in orbit.

Marauders and pirates

scanned the premises of hell.

The bloodhound

found the trail

of body parts

and blood

in lit streets

and open fields

and demanded food

on the diner

parking lot.