Panic Attack, USA

Nate Slawson

“Nate Slawson’s debut collection, PANIC ATTACK, USA, is a brass-knuckled love letter to a lost world. Meet the Cerberus of Slawson’s vision: spinal cords & grizzly bears, lost cities & body bags, bloodstains of dreams & birthday parties, yellowjackets & rattlesnakes, vampires & movie theaters, amens & fuck-offs, Heather Locklear & Superchunk, unidentifiable bodies of moonlight, midwestern topography & tommy guns, teeth & knee-caps, belt buckles & wanderlust. And there is more & more in the fine carousel of his brilliant wit & tenderness. Finally, a voice emerges to translate the wildfire of loneliness and memory. Each of these poems is a muscle—reflexive & close to the bone where America waits to be broken & re-cast. I trust Nate Slawson’s poems to name lightning.”—Rachel Eliza Griffiths

status	Lost
genre	Literature and Fiction » Poetry
publisher	YesYes Books
publish date	Nov 15, 2011
popularity	checked out 1 time(s)