Driving Through the Country Before You Are Born: Poems

by Ray McManus

Book Overview

Dark poems struggling to reconcile a haunting loss and troubled present

Selected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving through the Country before You Are Born is the first collection of poetry from Ray McManus. The speaker in these poems searches for redemption and solace while navigating from a traumatic loss in the past to a present fraught with violence and self-destruction. The volume...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570037027
• ISBN13: 9781570037023
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 8.5"