Advance Praise for Blood Ties & Brown Liquor
"Steadily confident, smart, and surprising." —CARL PHILLIPS, author of Riding Westward
"A deeply moving fictive exploration—an excavation!—of the world that shaped Sean Hill. Silas Wright is his personal entryway to the historical past, and these fully realized lyrics are the forms of his poetic truth." —EDWARD HIRSCH, author of Poet's Choice
"Sean Hill's songs are native to his town. Formally various, richly textured, they voice unwritten history with an acute sense of the deep sound of a place, the stream of blood and talk that courses through this writer's living hands." —MARK DOTY, author of Fire to Fire: New & Selected Poems
"Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop: these are among the select few whose first books signaled a new vision of form and vernacular, an everyday elegance. We can now add Sean Hill’s transcendent debut to that remarkable list. Blood Ties & Brown Liquor is the real thing—a book to believe in." —KEVIN YOUNG, author of For the Confederate Dead
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