To Keep Him Hidden

By Ryan Vine

Working-class machismo plus alcohol plus Catholicism have woven a spirit-killing trap that our protagonist has to escape, by way of courage and imagination. The poems convey the stress of outgrowing one's origins without betraying them. It's a drama that Ryan Vine explores without sentimentalizing and without self-vaunting: not an easy feat. Vine hits notes of bleak elegy like those in the best dark songs by Bruce Springsteen.-Mark Halliday

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912561034
• ISBN13: 9781912561032
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"