Farm Alarm: Poems

by Mac Gay

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-back little pamphlet of darkness is "alarm". Yet eventually, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger is a platitude that rings true. The poems slog through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680031880
• ISBN13: 9781680031881
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 8.3"