The Low Passions: Poems

In a "trenchantly observed and moving debut" (John James, Kenyon Review), Anders Carlson-Wee mines nourishment and holiness from the darkest of our human origins.

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 for...