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Author_J. Bruce Fuller
boyhood
Cajun
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coming of age
community
country wisdom
creole culture
dysfunction
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family life
fatherhood
Louisiana poetry
manhood
masculinity
oil rigs
roughnecks
rural life
small town
southern literature
Product details
- ISBN 9780807181287
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2024
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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How to Drown a Boy, a debut collection of poems by J. Bruce Fuller, investigates how boyhood and fatherhood entwine to create cycles that mimic decaying and dangerous natural surroundings. The woods, the water, the oil rigs, and the men who work them all have a powerful effect on the speaker from childhood through adulthood. These poems examine the weight of family and culture against a backdrop of climate change and environmental disaster.
J. Bruce Fuller's poems have appeared in the Southern Review and Best New Poets 2022, among other publications. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Stanford University, where he served as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He teaches at Sam Houston State University and is the director of Texas Review Press.
