"Drive Me Out of My Mind" is a coming-of-age story of wildness and wandering set primarily in the Upper Peninsula of Michiganits abandoned iron mines, desperate small towns, and heart-breaking bars. It s the memoir of a boy raised by lawless and itinerant women and how he was culturedand corruptedby their hard-living, hard-drinking, and hard-loving ways. Given this lot in life, Faries tells how one boy was hurt into becoming a poet at the ripe age...