"A stunning overlap of a lost boy and lost landscape through the lens of a gifted poet's magical linguistic and storytelling abilities." -VICTORIA CHANG
"A stunning overlap of a lost boy and lost landscape through the lens of a gifted poet's magical linguistic and storytelling abilities." -VICTORIA CHANG
John McCarthy is the author of one previous collection, Ghost Country, which was named a Best Poetry Book of 2016 by the Chicago Review of Books. McCarthy is the 2016 winner of The Pinch Literary Award in Poetry, and his work has appeared in Best New Poets 2015, Hayden's Ferry Review, Passages North, Sycamore Review, Zone 3, and in anthologies such as New Poetry from the Midwest 2017. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and serves as an editor of RHINO magazine and the Quiddity international literary journal and public radio program.
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Contents Switchgrass I. Hymn Pie Tins behind Porch Lights Portrait of the Only Child with Tire Swing Self-Portrait as Stolen Bike North End I As If the Shirt Were Standing up Straight, Hand Raised Hunger Word Problem Cremation Noise Falling Backward North End II Callousing Self-Portrait as Home Run Ball The Scarecrow's Reflection Is an Only Child Bloodmeal Little Ticks of Blood and the Taste of Dead Leaves Until I Learn That Please Is the Color of a Bruise North End III Vandalism II. Flyover Country I. [If You Stay Long Enough] II. [Of Motherhood, a Fierce Drowning] III. [Long Day of the Factory Belt] IV. [The Taste of Copper] V. [To Sever Anything] VI. [To Riven Stillness] VII. [Renders and Yields] III. Scared Violent Like Horses The Decapitation of Paul Bunyan Thin Napkins Sprinkled with Salt North End IV Last Rites Self-Portrait as Psychiatric Ward Definitions of Body Our Mother Stolen in a Pothole North End V Baptism Daguerreotype Confirmation North End VI What I Mean When I Say I Don't Box Anymore A Brief History of Friends On Fighting Love is Like a Horse Set on Fire from the Inside Wild Vision of What Is Real Sometimes I Call the Damage Healing And Other Acts of Mercy Upon Learning That Years Later the World Did Not End, I Was Finally Able to Talk about the Wild Horses Guide and Guard Us Far and Near Notes Acknowledgments
Contents Switchgrass I. Hymn Pie Tins behind Porch Lights Portrait of the Only Child with Tire Swing Self-Portrait as Stolen Bike North End I As If the Shirt Were Standing up Straight, Hand Raised Hunger Word Problem Cremation Noise Falling Backward North End II Callousing Self-Portrait as Home Run Ball The Scarecrow's Reflection Is an Only Child Bloodmeal Little Ticks of Blood and the Taste of Dead Leaves Until I Learn That Please Is the Color of a Bruise North End III Vandalism II. Flyover Country I. [If You Stay Long Enough] II. [Of Motherhood, a Fierce Drowning] III. [Long Day of the Factory Belt] IV. [The Taste of Copper] V. [To Sever Anything] VI. [To Riven Stillness] VII. [Renders and Yields] III. Scared Violent Like Horses The Decapitation of Paul Bunyan Thin Napkins Sprinkled with Salt North End IV Last Rites Self-Portrait as Psychiatric Ward Definitions of Body Our Mother Stolen in a Pothole North End V Baptism Daguerreotype Confirmation North End VI What I Mean When I Say I Don't Box Anymore A Brief History of Friends On Fighting Love is Like a Horse Set on Fire from the Inside Wild Vision of What Is Real Sometimes I Call the Damage Healing And Other Acts of Mercy Upon Learning That Years Later the World Did Not End, I Was Finally Able to Talk about the Wild Horses Guide and Guard Us Far and Near Notes Acknowledgments
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