In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar. Whether he be writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the “Italy of God,” or the milking rituals in Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Iggy Horse is a book that articulates the sadness and strangeness of American life with the poetic observations of true satire.
In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar. Whether he be writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the “Italy of God,” or the milking rituals in Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Iggy Horse is a book that articulates the sadness and strangeness of American life with the poetic observations of true satire.
Michael Earl Craig is from Dayton, Ohio, home of the gas mask and the mood ring. He is the author of Woods and Clouds Interchangeable (Wave Books, 2019), Talkativeness (Wave Books, 2014), Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010), Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006), Can You Relax in My House, (Fence Books, 2002), and the chapbook Jombang Jet (Factory Hollow Press, 2012). He lives in the Shields Valley, near Livingston, Montana, where he runs a full-time farrier practice. He was the 2015-2017 Poet Laureate of Montana.
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THE TRAIN PREPARING FOR SLEEP THE GHOSTS OF CASTLE OWLS PASTFIRMAMENTS SHELTER IN PLACE END TIMES PEP TALK TO SELF EATING SALAD AT AIRPORT THE RETURN OF STANISLAUS CANDLESNUFFER IT WAS ABOUT TO RAIN PREPARING TO PAINT THE BODY OF THE DEAD CHRIST IN THE TOMB CUBES OF ICE CLINKING DOCTOR FAUCI CHOCOLATE SANTA SOMEWHERE OVER GREENLAND THE SALESMAN HAD TWO BAGSUNDERFOOT
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COWBOY & PIRATE FIELD TRIP AN ARM MOVING QUICKLY THROUGH A COAT SLEEVE LINED WITH TAFFETA SPRINGTIME IN HORSE COUNTRY SPREZZATURA PORTRAIT OF THE WRITER MAX HERRMANN-NEISSE DRIVING HOME CALF WORSHIP CLOSING TIME THE BED OF THE PHLEGMON SAINT FINBAR’S, BURBANK MARIKO AOKI PHENOMENON RECOLLECTION THE RED MITTEN EVERYONE KNEW HER AS MARSHA THE HONEYMOON THE BELL IN AN OAK
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THE HALF-PACKED SUITCASE FIRST COW I WANTED TO SAY IT WAS TOO LATE CHEMISTRY DANCE FLOOR STANDING AT THE WINDOW IGGY HORSE WAITING I’M ASKING BEACH SOUNDS POEM ATTEMPTING TO DESCRIBE AN EMOTIONAL CRISIS JEEPERS THE WISHING WELL WALLACE STEVENS HESITATING BEFORE AN EVENING PLAYING BRIDGE WALKING ALONG THE TIBER
THE TRAIN PREPARING FOR SLEEP THE GHOSTS OF CASTLE OWLS PASTFIRMAMENTS SHELTER IN PLACE END TIMES PEP TALK TO SELF EATING SALAD AT AIRPORT THE RETURN OF STANISLAUS CANDLESNUFFER IT WAS ABOUT TO RAIN PREPARING TO PAINT THE BODY OF THE DEAD CHRIST IN THE TOMB CUBES OF ICE CLINKING DOCTOR FAUCI CHOCOLATE SANTA SOMEWHERE OVER GREENLAND THE SALESMAN HAD TWO BAGSUNDERFOOT
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COWBOY & PIRATE FIELD TRIP AN ARM MOVING QUICKLY THROUGH A COAT SLEEVE LINED WITH TAFFETA SPRINGTIME IN HORSE COUNTRY SPREZZATURA PORTRAIT OF THE WRITER MAX HERRMANN-NEISSE DRIVING HOME CALF WORSHIP CLOSING TIME THE BED OF THE PHLEGMON SAINT FINBAR’S, BURBANK MARIKO AOKI PHENOMENON RECOLLECTION THE RED MITTEN EVERYONE KNEW HER AS MARSHA THE HONEYMOON THE BELL IN AN OAK
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THE HALF-PACKED SUITCASE FIRST COW I WANTED TO SAY IT WAS TOO LATE CHEMISTRY DANCE FLOOR STANDING AT THE WINDOW IGGY HORSE WAITING I’M ASKING BEACH SOUNDS POEM ATTEMPTING TO DESCRIBE AN EMOTIONAL CRISIS JEEPERS THE WISHING WELL WALLACE STEVENS HESITATING BEFORE AN EVENING PLAYING BRIDGE WALKING ALONG THE TIBER
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