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    Highway or Belief
    Highway or Belief
    Highway or Belief
    Ebook43 pages18 minutes

    Highway or Belief

    By J. Scott Brownlee

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    "The violence of men, the delicacy of their broken bodies, the religiosity of the town that raised them: all of these influence Highway or Belief, which documents an America we rarely see. In J. Scott Brownlee’s Llano, Aron Anderson is the king of baseball and meth. High school football heroes become PTSD-affected war vets. The rural dead sing from the hollow flutes their bones leave in the dust. These are poems whose language begins with the body and the land. For Brownlee, the two are inseparable.â€
    -Dorianne Laux, author of The Book of Men
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherButton Poetry
    Release dateJan 4, 2020
    ISBN9781943735037
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      Highway or Belief - J. Scott Brownlee

      Highway or Belief

      J. Scott Brownlee

      Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press

      Minneapolis, Minnesota

      2014

      Copyright © 2014 by J. Scott Brownlee

      Published by Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press, Minneapolis, MN 55408

      http://buttonpoetry.com

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. If you do choose to share it with your friends, or if you came across this eBook for free, please note that Button Poetry is a small, artist-run organization, and we rely on your support to continue doing this work. Thanks!

      ISBN 978-1-943735-03-7

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      "What I admire most about the poems of Highway or Belief is how they actively choose to leave no one behind; it is evident that Brownlee has devoted much of his craft to name and resurrect the small town casualties that our country would rather ridicule and forget. This is one of the few books that gets the working class right, and it will ring as gospel for anyone who has attempted to outrun the fractured places that will never leave them."

      —Rachel McKibbens, Final Judge, author of Into the Dark and Emptying Field and Pink Elephant

      "J. Scott Brownlee is a Localist, a poet of place. ‘Texan grammar’ enriches the music of his lines. Syllables sputter, sing. An astonishing attentiveness to the people of Llano bleeds through the page. His poems are communal spaces where ‘po-dunk kids’ and soldiers with ‘a new brokenness’ cast tender and brutal

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