Natural State New Release carved with Humanity - beam

carved with Humanity - beam

these compelling narratives veer from fable to genre-bending country–club–horror–comedy

soft landings” as profound

look up to the sun and stars ("The Milky Way above us - / that's our shadow river")

Natural State New Release carved with Humanity - beamOne of the poems in Jon Tribble's Natural State observes that "the finest moment of our lives may not matter at all." That's a devastating truth, but Tribble's poems about growing up in Arkansas make every moment he renders matter, and matter deeply. Natural State may be Tribble's first collection, but it's as polished, mature, and wise as most poets' fourth or fifth, and it not only matters, its publication is one of contemporary poetry's finest