Publisher's Synopsis
the full-length debut from a rising, highly-regarded new talent in American poetry formally fresh and compelling, the poems are accessible yet will prove disarmingly new for both the casual reader of poetry as well as the scholar timely subject matter that considers the difficulties of maintaining healthy relationships, human nature as a part of Nature, rural environments, interracial love, generational substance abuse and war trauma, and constructing an identity while being assailed by both the past and the present.