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A son puffs cigarette smoke down his grandad's throat because the old man is too feeble to draw breath; retired draft horses learn to dance; the land manager's hired muscle flaunts an axe-handle; a grieving family uses a coffin as a card table; schoolboys siphon gin out of shag carpet just to catch a high. These are the variations of affection and kinship, so informed by and inextricable from the macabre tedium that abides in the back pews, dialysis clinics, and County-Line Liquors of daily life in Eastern Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile these poems are frequently ordered around grisly attitudes and occurrences, moods of indolent provincialism, and the evermore-contagious disease of despair, these are at their core love poems. Hall writes, \"Those are my people. I want nothing more than to esteem them and to show outsiders that even gruesomely human moments stripped of any decoration still have the heft and horsepower to be transcendent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1958094668\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781958094662\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hall, Ian\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Eastover Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Eastover Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Apr 2026)","offer_id":46291921666245,"sku":"9781958094662","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781958094662.jpg?v=1780113807"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/collections\/poetry-subjects-themes-places.oembed?page=2","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}