The Driver, The Journey, The Fall (Advance Reading Copy)

In THE DRIVER, THE JOURNEY, THE FALL, Lisa M. McDougald navigates confession and autobiography, writing about a range of trials: the death of her grandfather, love lost and longed for, a co-worker’s suicide, and existential anxieties. The author meditates on her heritage by contemplating DNA; she looks upward, celestial, probing there for answers. Here is an ardent soul fighting to sustain herself in a shifting and often isolating modern world through the decay of the 20th century and the dawning of the 21st. She offers us a swing in the park—sharing moments that threaten to plunge us off a cliff, but imploring us to hang on. And we will.

“…terrific language, vivid imagery, ear for musicality and rhythm, and attention to line breaks cause The Driver, The Journey, The Fall to haunt the reader long after they’ve read the collection. This has been one of the most masterfully organized poetry manuscripts I’ve read.” 
- Tell Tell Poetry Editor | telltellpoetry.com

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