Stutter: Poems

by William Billiter

Billiter's poems, spaced to stutter on the page, create a compelling yet dark world of small-town childhood that is disorienting and not all that bucolic. The town of Shinbone is an intense place: boys set bottles of cheap aftershave on fire, which segues with uncomfortable ease into grandmother's killing axe dispatching chickens and Soup's hand shredded in the corn dryer.

This collection pushes a recollected past to an extreme, replacing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820338818
• ISBN13: 9780820338811
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"