Poetry. Inside a truck in rural Utah, a pig farmer tells his young friend "Turn right up there/ and get off these pavements." What follows are cold beers and the monologue of a semiliterate man telling his heart's tale. The interwearving stories-caustic, hilarious and heart-rending-create one of the most hanting and accompolished poems of our time. DRIVING AND DRINKING takes about an hour to read. It will stay with you a lifetime.