What the Barn Can’t Kill

by Jerrod Schwarz

Within a body of agribusiness texts — abattoir equipment manuals, butchery textbooks, and rancher’s almanacs — lie the bones of a slaughterhouse poetics. Jerrod Schwarz extracts those bones through a process of digital erasure, revealing a haunting collection of visual poems, hidden until now behind a locked barn door. The Blasted Tree has published a limited edition of sixty chapbooks printed on recycled newsprint paper and bound in hand-stamped covers, each one unique. View the collection in the gallery below, chapbooks can be found in our online store.

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What the Barn Can’t Kill is out of print from The Blasted Tree Store.

Featured by The Blasted Tree: August 27, 2020


Jerrod Schwarz

Contributing Author


What the Barn Can’t Kill is a Blasted Tree original collection of visual poetry.

ISBN [Digital]: 978-1-987906-61-5

Cover Design by Kyle Flemmer

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