Balefire: Poems
Book Details
Author(s)
Ray, Shann
Publisher
Lost Horse Press
ISBN / ASIN
0991146514
ISBN-13
9780991146512
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#2,071,338
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Balefire is Shann Ray's debut book of poems, and contains a range of lyric and narrative poems that challenge the complexities of gender, race, and loss. He returns to the rugged masculinity encountered in his earlier American Book Award winning collection of short stories, American Masculine. Paul Constant of Seattle's alt weekly, The Stranger, said Ray's work is about "violence, Montana, and sweet, sweet love." Balefire considers the threshold over which a man must pass to regain himself, and the desolation he experiences in stumbling toward an experience of the feminine no longer defined by apathy, violence, or greed. Balefire affirms love and beauty, refined by the fires of the contemporary American West.
