Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Explosive and incantatory, The Low Passions traces the fringes of the American experiment through the eyes of a young drifter.
"Carlson-Wee has a true gift for narrative. The poems carve arcs toward illumination." --Todd Davis, Rain Taxi Review of Books
"These poems rattle along with energy and awe like the trains that fill these pages." --Dorianne Laux
Synopsis
Explosive and incantatory, The Low Passions traces the fringes of the American experiment through the eyes of a young drifter. Pathologically frugal, reckless, and vulnerable, the narrator of these viscerally compelling poems hops freight trains, hitchhikes, dumpster dives, and sleeps in the homes of total strangers, scavenging forgotten and hardscrabble places for tangible forms of faith.