The Household Gods (CSU Poetry Series) (CSU Poetry Series) (CSU Poetry Series)

"In this powerful and arresting collection, Daniel Bourne explores, among other things, the dailiness of violence - the sow who eats her own young, the cousin whose hands are severed in a farm accident, the neighbor blinded by wood alcohol, a pond's demise, a father's cancer, the small and large deaths. And he finds in these meditations on morality cause to embrace the consolations of memory and the transforming power of the imagination. With compassionate intelligence, wit and whimsy, Bourne celebrates the 'dark festivities' in his richly textured and memorable first book." -- Ron Wallace