{"product_id":"scared-violent-like-horses-poems-9781571315076","title":"Scared Violent Like Horses: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy's \u003cem\u003eScared Violent Like Horses\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch for fun. He shows us a boy struggling to understand pain carried down through generations and how quickly abandonment becomes a silent kind of violence; \"how we deny each other, daily, so many chances to care,\" and how \"we didn't know how to talk about loss, \/ so we made each other lose.\" Constant throughout is the brutality of the Midwestern landscape that, like the people who inhabit it, turns out to be beautiful in its vulnerability: sedgegrass littered with plastic bags floating like ghosts, dilapidated houses with abandoned Fisher Price toys in the yard, and silos of dirt and rust under a sky that struggles to remember the ground below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith arresting lyricism and humility, \u003cem\u003eScared Violent Like Horses\u003c\/em\u003e attends to the insecurities that hide at the heart of what's been turned harsh, offering a smoldering but redemptive and tender view of the lost, looked over, and forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4299215\"\u003eJohn McCarthy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571315071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023040\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Places\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023030\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Animals \u0026amp; Nature\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn McCarthy is the author of one previous collection, \u003ci\u003eGhost Country\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a Best Poetry Book of 2016 by the \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. McCarthy is the 2016 winner of \u003ci\u003eThe Pinch\u003c\/i\u003e Literary Award in Poetry, and his work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets 2015\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHayden's Ferry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePassages North\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSycamore Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZone 3\u003c\/i\u003e, and in anthologies such as \u003ci\u003eNew Poetry from the Midwest 2017\u003c\/i\u003e. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and serves as an editor of \u003ci\u003eRHINO\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and the \u003ci\u003eQuiddity\u003c\/i\u003e international literary journal and public radio program.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44433502830829,"sku":"9781571315076","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_a495faf5-e3a0-447e-a25e-36778bf1fbf8.jpg?v=1700064395","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/scared-violent-like-horses-poems-9781571315076","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}