Publisher's Synopsis
Escaping the End of the World is Gary Brower's first really big collection. It is long overdue and its mature voice engages us completely. This is the memoir of a man, but also of a time and place. The place is the American Midwest at the harrowing horizon of mid-20th century. An era of lived poverty and scraping to get by. Brower sings to a culture of God, patriotism and family, from a distance that remembers and a present that refuses to -throw the baby out with the bathwater, - as he says in one of these spectacular poems.
--Margaret Randall, Author of She Becomes Time and About Little Charlie Lindbergh
