Far Away

by Gregory Lawless

Winner of the 2014 Red Mountain Poetry Prize The poems in FAR AWAY explore the gothic landscapes and depleted economies of a semi-fictional state on the margins of empire. The beleaguered voice at the center of this collection wanders through foreclosed houses and shattered relationships, caught between vision and memory, forgetting and curiosity. Human loss and state neglect overlap in FAR AWAY to reveal a new republic of isolation.

Genres: Poetry

60 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2015

About the author

Gregory Lawless is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of I Thought I Was New Here (BlazeVOX, 2009), Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania (Dream Horse Press, forthcoming), Far Away (Red Mountain Press, forthcoming) and the chapbook Foreclosure (Back Pages Publishers, 2013). He is the is the winner of the 2013 Orphic Prize for Poetry and the 2014 Red Mountain Poetry Prize. His poems have been featured in such places as Pleiades, The Journal, Third Coast, Gulf Stream, The Cincinnati Review, Sixth Finch, La Petite Zine, Best of the Net, Verse Daily, and others.