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The Last Saturday in America

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by Ray McManus
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ray McManus, David Joy (Introduction by)Publish date:2024-03-12Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hub City PressISBN-13:9798885740319ISBN-10:8885740316UPC:9798885740319Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:PlacesSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCB4TT9VWC

For fans of Americana music and a beer after mowing the lawn, The Last Saturday in America confronts the long shadow of Southern masculinity.


The Last Saturday in America is set in a nation on the precipice of great change. Through examinations of suburban neighbors, bullies, gun violence, and vasectomy appointments, Ray McManus draws a portrait of American masculinity in the face of political division, pandemic, and cultural warfare. McManus's speaker is caught between the way he was raised and the future he wants to see for who he is raising. He can no longer rely on what he thought he knew, nor does he know what to do about it. The man rendered in these pages is a father, a son, a Southerner. And he is willing to burn it all down and start something new, only to see that the new start he is looking for has been with him the whole time.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Hub City PressISBN-13:9798885740319ISBN-10:8885740316UPC:9798885740319Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:PlacesSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCB4TT9VWC

Ray McManus is the author of four books of poetry: Punch. (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Book Award for Best Book of Poetry in North America), Red Dirt Jesus (selected by Alicia Ostriker for the Marick Press Poetry Prize 2011), and Driving through the country before you are born (winner of the South Carolina Book Prize in 2006), and a chapbook called Left Behind. He is the co-editor for the anthology Found Anew with notable contributors with South Carolina ties. His poems have been published in numerous journals such as Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, and POETRY magazine. He lives in South Carolina where he teaches for USC Sumter and serves as the Writer in Residence for the Columbia Museum of Art.


Publisher: Hub City Press

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Ray McManus, David Joy (Introduction by)

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Ray McManus

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