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PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR JIM REESE
Jim Reese... He's our Mark Twain of this century...
—Grace Cavalieri, from the Poet and the Poem at the Library of Congress
We call it the heartland but we seldom drop by for a visit. Jim Reese catches the dying fire of the small town wasteland that staggers on with meth, desire, and neglect. These loving poems open the door to the real little house on the prairie. Time to step inside and finally have one honest moment with the forgotten center of our people."
—Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
...Reese is an eloquent tour guide, a smart, soft-hearted, wise-cracking Virgil in a land of lonely miles and piercing beauty.
—George Bilgere, author of Imperial
No other poet I can think of captures the Anglo-American Midwest dialect like Jim Reese. The ambling, sometimes hesitant cadences, the clever self-deprecating sayings, the gentle inflections, the pitch-perfect, barely smiling comic take… To enter this book is to be quietly swept into an existential imagination that's modest, wry, agrarian—and of our time.
—Kevin Clark, author of Self-Portrait with Expletives
Jim Reese finds poetry everywhere—in emails; on bumper stickers; on skin; in bowling alleys and bars; in classrooms; in prisons; and in classrooms in prisons—and we’re lucky that he's sharing it with us in this wry, compassionate collection...
—Jim Daniels author of Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry
...He is the quintessential American poet, one to be admired and read again and again.
—Maria Mazziotti Gillan, American Book Award winner
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