Drive Me Out of My Mind

by Chad Faries

Overview

Drive Me Out of My Mind is a coming-of-age story of wildness and wandering set primarily in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan — its abandoned iron mines, desperate small towns, and heart-breaking bars. It’s the memoir of a boy raised by lawless and itinerant women and how he was cultured — and corrupted — by their hard-living, hard-drinking, and hard-loving ways. Given this lot in life, Faries tells how one boy was hurt into becoming a poet at the ripe age of two — to imagine another world other than the daily madness in front of him — a world where violent stalkers hovered over the hospital beds of women as they gave birth, where father figures also copulated with Gramma, where a worn Barbie doll was a main source of comfort, and where home meant 24 anonymous hovels in 10 years.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011348631
Publisher:	Emergency Press
Publication date:	06/13/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	403 KB

About the Author

Chad Faries is the author of two collections of poetry, The Border Will Be Soon and The Book of Knowledge. A recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, he lived and taught in Central Europe for many years. Currently he teaches at Savannah State University, where he also hosts a radio program on WHCJ 90.3. When not in Savannah, Faries gets lost on his motorcycle whenever he can. Above all, he is a "Yooper"—a native of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Behind City Market, Iron River, Michigan: Late Summer 1976 1

1 Orchard Place. Battle Creek, Michigan: Early May 1971 25

2 711 Roosevelt Street. Stambaugh, Michigan: Early Fall 1971 29

3 Gennesee Street. Iron River, Michigan: Spring 1972 33

4 Third Street. Stambaugh, Michigan: Late Spring 1972 37

5 A Basement Under a Doctor's Office. Battle Creek, Michigan: Spring 1973 43

6 Lincoln Street Across from the Cemetery. Stambaugh, Michigan: Late Fall 1973 49

7 Lincoln Street on Top of the Hill. Stambaugh, Michigan: Summer 1974 55

? Lost Chapter for the House Behind Heartbreak Hotel. Iron River, Michigan: Sometime in Spring 1974 63

8 Eddy's Sister's House. Battle Creek, Michigan: 1974-75 67

9 Merit Street. Battle Creek, Michigan: Summer 1975 77

10 711 Roosevelt Street. Stambaugh, Michigan: Early Winter 1975 87

11 The Sharecropper's House. Wachula, Florida: Late 76-Winter 77 101

? Lost Chapter for Euridike. Stambaugh Hill House. Stambaugh, Michigan: Sometime Before 1975 125

12 Near City Market. Iron River, Michigan: Spring 1977 129

13 Further Down Lincoln Street. Stambaugh, Michigan: Summer 1977 147

14 Pittsville and Stevens Point. Wisconsin: Fall 1977 157

15 The Last Time at 711 Roosevelt Street. Stambaugh, Michigan: 1978 169

16 A Trailer Park. Karnes City, Texas: Fall 1978-Spring 1979 181

? Lost Chapter for the Shamrock Bar. Gaastra, Michigan: Mid 1970's 191

17 A Trailer Park. Glasgow, Montana: Summer 1980 195

18 Planet's Resort. Iron River, Michigan: Summer 1980 203

19 Dober Location. Caspian, Michigan: Winter 1980-81 217

Afterword: 1308 Ninth Street. Iron River, Michigan: 1981-82 229