Mel Bay’s Book of the Dead

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Mel Bay’s Book of the Dead

by Harold Whit Williams

Six-string and stompbox-themed stories culled from a bittersweet and simpler South, a grotesque and good-riddance South. Think Youth Fiction peppered with HBO cussin’. Not necessarily for the faint-of-heart or the high-minded literati.

About the Author

Harold Whit Williams is a prize-winning poet and longtime guitarist for the indie rock band Cotton Mather. He is the recipient of the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, and the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, Williams lives in Austin, Texas where he records lo-fi music as Daily Worker. As a music cataloger, he works on the KUT collection for the University of Texas Libraries. A Rain Ancestral is his sixth book of poetry.

Book Details

Print ISBN: 9781736177921
eBook ISBN:9781736177938
doi:10.21428/9b43cd98.993e3fc9
Length:142 pages
Release Date:15/January/2021
Edition:1

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