Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c1995.
Description
Winner, 1995 Western States Book Award. Peopled with some of the most authentically drawn characterizations of rural life since Mark Twain, Lee's is a small town universe--"an aural agrarian saga,"--is filled with hilarity, love, labor, tragicomedy, and compassionate wisdom.¶"It's a speech full of eloquence, pathos, and humor, full of music, full of good sense. I could read it all week."--Hayden Carruth
User reviews
LibraryThing member b.masonjudy
A wild romp in the psyche of a community through the very literal rendering of dialect makes My Town a collection that resonates in a key that is charming and disarming. I didn't fully buy into the yarns and I think my own hesitancy did me a disservice to the enjoyment I could've had if I
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approached it less like a book of poetry and more like a barroom conversation. Show Less
Awards
Reading the West Book Award (Winner — Poetry — 1996)