Farm alarm : poems /
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...
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Huntsville, Texas :
Texas Review Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Closure
- The last word
- Real churches
- Cowboy death
- Dad's prior commitment
- Our fatherlessness
- Crap shoot
- Hot rod
- Practice
- Re: The lost farm
- Demolition
- Our fatherlessness 2
- Ghosts
- Advice
- Blue yonder
- At lawnwood
- Murder house
- Self-portrait
- Squirrel Creek farm
- Black humor does not lift, but may distract
- Cobbler
- My early morning session with the owl
- Ode to meat
- Bulletin from the vegan god
- Guilt
- For boys who have become their own fathers.