The Book of Drought: Poems

by Rob Carney

In The Book of Drought, Rob Carney skips ahead to the ending, setting his unnamed Listen-Recorder in a near-future landscape newly wrecked by drought. Instead of water: dead lakebeds. Instead of wild animals: bones. The sky is now cloudless, and the city's faucets are dry. No one has adjusted yet, but some gather in an empty river to grieve, remember, and to tell their stories, the stories that become this book. Part dystopian warning,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680033921
• ISBN13: 9781680033922
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.