every house needs a ghost by Timothy Fox [PRE-ORDER]

Description

daddy gone stepped up out of the weeds
holding a rabbit by its ears

we called him daddy gone on account
his daddy gone and never come back

he said watch this
and pinched the limp rabbit’s fur
tearing it clean
and the pink flesh fell out all in one piece

we asked how he learned to do that

daddy gone flashed his pocketknife
and set to cleaning the carcass right there
saying some nights i’m an owl

“Timothy Fox conjures words which stretch themselves between what is and what is not, forming strange words which somehow come closer to reality than the small towns they inhabit” — Jay Hulme, author of The Backwater Sermons

B.H. Fairchild meets Kelly Link in this collection of poems by Timothy Fox. Made from the viscera of a working class upbringing in the American Deep South, every house needs a ghost is both haunting and haunted. It includes the voices and stories of faith healers, queer teenagers, orphaned children, meth heads, single mothers and dead grandparents. Unsettling, gothic, and clear-eyed, it makes for a powerful and exciting debut.

Timothy Fox is originally from Texas. He received a Houston Press Theatre Award for his play ‘The Whale; or, Moby-Dick’, and a Vault Festival Spirit Award for his play ‘The Witch’s Mark’. He was a finalist for the Robert Philips Poetry Chapbook Prize. www.timothy-fox.com

32 pages, 978-1-7395051-4-1