Description
Poetry. '"I took much trouble into myself,' says Tim Earley at the beginning of this audacious and revelatory book. Like an Appalachian Whitman, he consumes everything — work, kinship, sex, love, illness, religion, and violence (both invasion and self–harm) — and '[vomits] out the old weird America.' Earley sings in 'impossible registers,' rivaling fellow white trash iconoclast Axl Rose's famous vocal range. He gives us Dauphins and Goody powder, 'pure spirit' and Spam, moving easily between the ludicrous and the sublime. Every page of this book is scrawled with stupendous feats of language, but LINTHEAD STOMP is no mere verbal flood. It is an elegy for a 'cousin who died in restraints at the mental hospital in Morganton,' a brother so distraught over the death of Dale Earnhardt he loses fifty pounds, a friend going mad in a trailer full of pills and Spanish art. It is a tribute to a people who have been ridiculed, patronized, exploited, and ignored. Terrifying and heartfelt, urgent and absurd, LINTHEAD STOMP is Earley at his most devastating and delightful. A truly transcendent book." —Mark Neely
Author Bio
Tim Earley is the author of a number of collections of poetry, including EPIGRAMS BOTH LUDIC AND REGICIDAL (Delete Press, 2019), LINTHEAD STOMP (Horse Less Press, 2016), and POEMS DESCRIPTIVE OF RURAL LIFE AND SCENERY (Horse Less Press, 2014). He lives in Denver, Colorado and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches online courses in literature and creative writing.
Author City: Denver, CO USA