Biloxi Back Bay: Selected Poems of Rob Greene

Hospitals, freeway underpasses, emergency rooms and public libraries provide the backdrop for these understated blues of memory and place. From the waterfronts of the deep South to the trainyards of the Northwest, they chart the ragged outskirts of contemporary America. Greene is the grandchild of Hugo and Ray Carver, of Thomas McGrath and Bukowski, finding salvation in the breath of a poem, naming his ghosts one by one. - Joseph Millar