Love Letters from an Arsonist

<p>Down in Florida the land drips in a sweltering haze. The people scream in a grotesque holler. David van den Berg's collection sings the land and people of these cryptid southern wastes in a monumental triumph of a rural voice that demands recognition in a world too often ignorant of how rural life is the breeding ground for a true and honest look at humanity's victories shortcomings and battles with life death and a silent God. Sometimes calling on the likes of Greek mythology sometimes giving voice to Grandma Voodoo Brer Rabbit and warnings of a dog who only loves you at dinner van den Berg here raises the stakes of a new southern voice and ultimately burns and triumphs. </p>