Thunderbird Inn - Couverture souple

Callahan, Collin

 
9781733602082: Thunderbird Inn

Synopsis

Thunderbird Inn chronicles the drug-addled misadventures of a man and his friend, Richard, on a transcontinental bender that bottoms out in the Florida panhandle. Fueled by cheap booze and various powders, the duo loiters on the fringes of a decaying America. The poems in the collection are often casket-shaped, not unlike shoebox time capsules. Intimate spaces to die inside.

Or live. Or snort horse tranquilizer.

Which the narrator and Richard do often in neon lit parking lots.

Do they commit a few small crimes? Sure. But there is a loving tenderness to their dysfunctional codependence. The collection itself is shaped by addiction and routine. This is less a tale of recovery and more of a doom spiral.

Like a seedy motel, Thunderbird Inn is inhabited by outcasts and weirdos. Perhaps near an interstate, in valley stitched together with telephone wires.

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À propos de l?auteur

Collin Callahan was born in Illinois. His poems have appeared in

Granta, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, SLICE, Hobart, Carve Magazine,

Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2021 Bat City

Review Editors' Prize in Poetry. Collin is a graduate of the University of

Arkansas and Florida State University. He currently lives and teaches in

Tallahassee. You can find his work at collincallahanwrites.

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