The Low Passions: Poems

by Anders Carlson-Wee

Book Overview

Explosive and incantatory, The Low Passions traces the fringes of the American experiment through the eyes of a young drifter. Pathologically frugal, reckless, and vulnerable, the narrator of these viscerally compelling poems hops freight trains, hitchhikes, dumpster dives, and sleeps in the homes of total strangers, scavenging forgotten and hardscrabble places for tangible forms of faith. A range of strong-willed characters takes shape, amplified...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393652386
• ISBN13: 9780393652383
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"