Description
Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Red Mountain Poetry Prize The poems in FAR AWAY explore the gothic landscapes and depleted economies of a semi-fictional state on the margins of empire. The beleaguered voice at the center of this collection wanders through foreclosed houses and shattered relationships, caught between vision and memory, forgetting and curiosity. Human loss and state neglect overlap in FAR AWAY to reveal a new republic of isolation.
Author Bio
Gregory Lawless is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the winner of the 2014 Red Mountain Poetry Prize and 2013 Orphic Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Third Coast, The Journal, Pleiades, The National Poetry Review, Salamander, Sixth Finch, Verse Daily, Best of the Net, and many others. He is the author of I THOUGHT I WAS NEW HERE (BlazeVOX, 2009), Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania (Dream Horse Press, forthcoming), and the chapbook Foreclosure (Back Pages Publishers, 2013).
Author City: WALTHAM, MA USA