The Cutting Songs of the Butcher Son

The Butcher Son would like to blame the following people for bringing this book into existence: The Butcher and the Butcher Lady, Stephen Johnson, Albert Goldbarth,

Jason Ryberg. Thanks.

A few of the poems here have been previously featured in the following publications:

How to Scream a Fish,
After Weariness,
Wallace Stevens Elizabeth Bishop My Friends and I at Land Between
the Lakes first appeared in Open 24 Hrs; Meat for Natural Hunger and Graceland first appeared in Mikrocosmos
and later in Open 24 Hrs. and Butcher Son Cuts on Language appeared in The Sheridan Review under a different title.