Rodeo in Reverse

By Lindsey Alexander

Picture reversing a rodeo: the rider flies back onto the horse, the horse bucks into stillness. A whirling cast of characters engage in self-interrogation and self-discovery and wrestle in similar fashion in the pages of Rodeo in Reverse, a debut collection from Lindsey Alexander, which Sean Hill calls "the genuine article." Both time machine and microscope, Rodeo in Reverse is woven from bits of Americana: married life, art history, pioneers, and witches. These poems effortlessly traverse personal and historical pasts with tenderness and unrivaled humor. They offer a tour of American landscape--the trees with bitter crop of the South; the plains of the Midwest; the duels of a cartoonish Wild West. At once a wily romp and a lyric sweep, Rodeo in Reverse considers the possibilities and failures of domestic life on the never-ending quest of rounding up, and defining, the self. Rodeo in Reverse is the winner of the 2017 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938235401
• ISBN13: 9781938235405
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Hub City Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.3"