The Stuntman

Musings on the modern epidemic of narcissism in “deadpan, witty poems that flash with plangent images and macabre moments” ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ). “THE EARTH BROKE OPEN CAUSE WE BROKE IT OPEN,” blares the first line of this enrapturing debut collection mapping the myth of Narcissus and Echo and the Iron Range roots of Bob Dylan onto a world growing increasingly self-obsessed. Against the backdrop of the mining town of Hibbing, Minnesota, Brian Laidlaw examines the ways narcissism has flood