All the Beautiful Dead (along the side of the road)

Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Bitter Oleander Library of Poetry Book Award. "Gholson's ALL THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD (ALONG THE SIDE OF THE ROAD) is a harrowing, razor-biting collection which addresses the wounded and the outcast, in a landscape of boxcars, poppies, crows, empty fields, the lights of Las Vegas which can't overpower the open black mouth of the desert night, and the rusted lives and emotional shrapnel ranging from Wales to Colorado, New Mexico to Gaza. This poet's range is wide, able t...