Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems

by B. H. Fairchild

Overview

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

B. H. Fairchild's memory systems are the collective vision of America's despairing dreamers—failed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist priest, college boys at a burlesque theater, the last remaining cast members of The Wizard of Oz. Looming over all is the fact and the mystery of our continued renewal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393325669
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/17/2004
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

B. H. Fairchild is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including The Blue Buick and Usher. A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Bobbitt National Prize, he lives in California.

Editorial Reviews

"Fairchild is in touch with that America we almost forgot, melancholy, dream-ridden, wistful, ghost-like."

Gerald Stern

"These poems make a rare, magical conjunction between a communal sense of place and a solitary habit of memory."

Eavan Boland

"What an exaltation!"

Richard Howard