{"product_id":"scared-violent-like-horses-poems-9781571315076","title":"Scared Violent Like Horses: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy's \u003cem\u003eScared Violent Like Horses\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch for fun. He shows us a boy struggling to understand pain carried down through generations and how quickly abandonment becomes a silent kind of violence; \"how we deny each other, daily, so many chances to care,\" and how \"we didn't know how to talk about loss, \/ so we made each other lose.\" Constant throughout is the brutality of the Midwestern landscape that, like the people who inhabit it, turns out to be beautiful in its vulnerability: sedgegrass littered with plastic bags floating like ghosts, dilapidated houses with abandoned Fisher Price toys in the yard, and silos of dirt and rust under a sky that struggles to remember the ground below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith arresting lyricism and humility, \u003cem\u003eScared Violent Like Horses\u003c\/em\u003e attends to the insecurities that hide at the heart of what's been turned harsh, offering a smoldering but redemptive and tender view of the lost, looked over, and forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315076","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439268860041,"sku":"9781571315076","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b853f40e-d5f0-492e-a553-40cd111dbb84.jpg?v=1716270935","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/scared-violent-like-horses-poems-9781571315076","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}