DescriptionSean Karns will break your heart.
The narrator of this collection makes starkly vivid the hardscrabble background of his life: an unhappy mother who works at the slaughterhouse, a father whose farm fails, a boy who loves both but plays the piano to escape.
A group of poems referencing the likes of Walker Evans and James Agee enlarges the context considerably.
There is a doomed affair, a brilliant dream sequence about the father, and a field of cornstalks.
flutter ing] their death rattle.
Deeply sad, profoundly moving, and seductively musical, these poems are a testament to survival and art.
- KELLY CHERRY, author of The Life and Death of Poetry: Poems.
| Life | An unhappy mother who works at the slaughterhouse a father whose farm fails a boy who loves both but plays the piano to escape |
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| Poetry | Poems |
