leaving a tip at the Blue Moon Motel

<p><strong>Shortlisted for the 34th annual Reading the West Book Award in poetry.</strong></p><p>This newest collection from Richard Vargas stands chest-to-chest with the realities of the American working class. At once acerbic and tender the poems swell with curiosity and compassion for the people living in a culture designed to milk them dry. Vargas writes with humor with wonder with wickedness and guileless admiration acknowledging those whose lives are seldom glamorized.</p>