Winter Stranger: Poems Holbert Jackson
Winter Stranger: Poems Holbert Jackson Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert's Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes…
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Winter Stranger: Poems Holbert Jackson
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert's Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us.In the cold, seminal countryside of eastern Washington, a boy puts a bullet through his skull in a high school parking lot. "I left that town / forever," Holbert writes, but its bruises appear everywhere, in dreams of violent men and small stars, the ghosts of friends and pills. An uncle crushes oxycodone into "a thousand red granules." Hawks wheel above a dark, indifferent river.
These poems incite a complex emotional discourse on what it means to leave--if it's ever actually possible, or if our roots only grow longer to accommodate the distance.Punctuated by recollections of loved ones consumed by their addictions, Winter Stranger also questions the capricious nature of