Strange Country

<p>Fascinated by strangeness that’s made in the U.S.A.—its beliefs and organization its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past—Strange Country lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes/dreamscapes and to their unaccountable beauty.</p><p>"In <em>Strange Country</em> Jon Thompson addresses the voices amongst others of ‘the traffic of fear’ and bids their speakers join the living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a specifically American poetry of the here-and-now. The accomplishment of <em>Strange Country </em>begins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be termed the present contradictions of a strange country.  What sustains that accomplishment is a poet’s attention to a ‘wide-open polyphony’ equal to the multiple realities of its subject." — Kelvin Corcoran</p>