Rigger Death and Hoist Another - Softcover

McCullough, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937854299 ISBN 13: 9781937854294

Publisher: Black Lawrence Press, 2013

Synopsis

Poetry. Poems located in the interstices of parenting and politics that vibrate with heat, anger, and strange grace. Rife with guns, tattoos, booze, wounds, and lost teeth, these explosive narrative lyrics imagine what it means to try and fail and still go on.

About this title

About the Author:

Laura McCullough's most recent book of poems is RIGGER DEATH & HOIST ANOTHER. Her other books are PANIC, Speech Acts, and WHAT MEN WANT. She is the editor of two anthologies: The Room & the World: Essays on the Poetry of Stephen Dunn, forthcoming from Syracuse University Press, and A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race, forthcoming from University of Georgia Press. In 2014, Emerge Literary Publications will publish a series of three books, Ripple & Snap, micro- fiction/prose-poem story, Shutters*Voices*Wind, linked monologues, and The Smashing House, a short fiction chapbook. She has been awarded scholarships or fellowships from Sewanee Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, and others. Her essays, criticism, poems, creative non-fiction, and short fiction have appeared in The Georgia Review, New South, Guernica, The American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Pank, The Writer's Chronicle, Gulf Coast, Pedestal, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. She is the editor of Mead: the Magazine of Literature and Libations and an editor at large for TranStudies Magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1937854299
• ISBN 13: 9781937854294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80