Scared Violent Like Horses: Poems

by John McCarthy

Book Overview

Selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy's Scared Violent Like Horses is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.

McCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571315071
• ISBN13: 9781571315076
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"