As Brownlee unleashes the rural gods of air, earth, fire, and water, he reminds us that "joy has a sadness in it we are able to claim if we hear its music." I can't stop listening.
-Dorianne Laux

There’s an elegiac tone to this fine collection, which rides on its deep feeling and resonant imagery. The barns dismantle. The deer and men wound each other. A mother collapses in her son’s arms after a failed surgery. But the April wildflowers also bloom after spring rain in a Hill Country landscape that reminds me of James Wright’s rural Ohio and the California farmlands of Larry Levis.
-Joseph Millar