An associate professor of English at USC, Ed Madden is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Nest (Salmon 2014). His work also appears in Best New Poets 2007 and elsewhere. He is also the editor of Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio. In January 2015, he was named the Poet Laureate of the City of Columbia, South Carolina.
Elegiac poems about loss and death, the fraught relationship between a gay son and his religious father, and the natural world of the rural Arkansas Delta. Fans of Silas House should love this collection.