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Picture reversing a rodeo: the rider flies back onto the horse, the horse bucks into stillness. A whirling cast of characters engage in self-interrogation and self-discovery and wrestle in similar fashion in the pages of Rodeo in Reverse, a debut collection from Lindsey Alexander, which Sean Hill calls “the genuine article.”
Both time machine and microscope, Rodeo in Reverse is woven from bits of Americana: married life, art history, pioneers, and witches. These poems effortlessly traverse personal and historical pasts with tenderness and unrivaled humor. They offer a tour of American landscape—the trees with bitter crop of the South; the plains of the Midwest; the duels of a cartoonish Wild West. At once a wily romp and a lyric sweep, Rodeo in Reverse considers the possibilities and failures of domestic life on the never-ending quest of rounding up, and defining, the self. Rodeo in Reverse is the winner of the 2017 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize.
Price: $14.95
Pages: 88
Publisher: Hub City Press
Imprint: Hub City Press
Publication Date:
04 September 2018
Trim Size: 8.50 X 6.50 in
ISBN: 9781938235405
Format: Paperback
"Lindsey Alexander’s debut collection, Rodeo in Reverse, grabs from the start and continues to surprise with its curious thoughtful turns and exhilarating associative leaps. The mind at work in these poems charms as you’re drawn deeper into conversation and engagement with them about women pioneers in the American West, to old wives’ tales about ostriches, and a range of things in between. The speaker of these poems is about the necessary work of identity making and reconciling one’s self with self recognition. Rodeo in Reverse is the genuine article."
Lindsey D. Alexander is a Kentuckian who lives in East Tennessee with her dog and husband. She was named after a 1970s TV star and a broadcast journalist. She holds degrees from Indiana University and Purdue University. Her poems have appeared on Poets.org, and in Crazyhorse, Waxwing, The Southern Review, GRIST, and other publications. A poem she wrote won the 2015 Devil’s Lake Driftless Prize, and in 2014, she was a scholar at the month-long National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute “Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor.” For more, visit LDAlexander.com.