Farm Alarm - Gay, Mac
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In a world as terrifying as Plath's and as mistake-ridden as Curly Howard's, a world trapped in its Gothic, Southern O'Connor-esque box, Gay picks through the wreckage of the years with gritty idiomatic narrative, and sardonic lyric. The key word in this one-step-forward-and-two-steps-back little pamphlet of darkness is "alarm". Yet eventually, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger is a platitude that rings true. The poems slog through farm tragedies, grueling football practice, problems with marriage and alcohol, stupid jobs, rejection of poems, and shaky self-esteem with plucky…mehr

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In a world as terrifying as Plath's and as mistake-ridden as Curly Howard's, a world trapped in its Gothic, Southern O'Connor-esque box, Gay picks through the wreckage of the years with gritty idiomatic narrative, and sardonic lyric. The key word in this one-step-forward-and-two-steps-back little pamphlet of darkness is "alarm". Yet eventually, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger is a platitude that rings true. The poems slog through farm tragedies, grueling football practice, problems with marriage and alcohol, stupid jobs, rejection of poems, and shaky self-esteem with plucky tenaciousness. Fatherlessness and fruitlessness may be the detours but thankfully not the destination. Gay's quirky sardonic voice perfectly matches the foibles described herein. Far from the typical failure-to-success story, the collection does arc toward a hard-won edification of a kind, a sort of smile, if you will, even though weather-beaten and wry.
Autorenporträt
MAC GAY is the author of three previous collections of poetry. His new full-length collection, Ghost Hunt, is forthcoming in 2019. His poems have been featured in numerous magazines, including Atlanta Review, Cutbank, Plainsong, Texas Poetry Calendar, Snake Nation Review, and Mojave River Review. He teaches at Perimeter College at Georgia State University and resides in Covington, Georgia with his wife Jana and his three incredibly spoiled dogs.