Seventeen Graveyards:
Histories/Descriptions of Some U.S. States

Mathias Svalina

America confuses me. I wrote a manuscript called GRAVEYARD GRAVEYARD GRAVEYARD GRAVEYARD to research this confusion. That manuscript consists of histories/descriptions of all eighty-eight states of America. This chapbook consists of seventeen of those histories/descriptions.

“There’s no Georgia after you’re gone. There’s nothing but the empty bag. There’s nothing like a pricetag. They should change the name of where you live when you are no longer there.”

MATHIAS SVALINA is the author of five books, most recently The Wine-Dark Sea from Sidebrow Books. He is an editor for Octopus Books and runs the Dream Delivery Service.