Goodreads asked Mitchell R. McInnis:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Mitchell R. McInnis My most recent book is a full-length poetry manuscript currently being shopped to publishers. There is no one idea behind the book, as it is an exploration of many, many ideas in a polyphony of voices. The through line, however, is an investigation into the roots of the creative urge and how the various voices of experience become synthesized into the artist's singular voice.

It's titled "Dancing in the Neon Boneyard."

Philosophically and aesthetically, it is strongly influenced by Mikail Bakhtin's "Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics." His notions of the carnivalesque and polyphony set the syllables of this collection in
motion.

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