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High Ground Coward (Iowa Poetry Prize) by Alicia Mountain is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Alicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. __High Ground Coward__ offers fists full of soil, leftovers for breakfast, road trip as ritual, twins of lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms with hunger-inducing detail, its speakers asking us to consider what it will take to satisfy our own appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish one another. “Ferocious, even the softest part,” Mountain shows us “a way to fall in love with wanting,” leaving us “ravenous, but gradually.” Bearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion, __High Ground Coward__ is an almanac of emotional and relational seasons. Mountain’s speakers question the meaning of inheritance, illness, violence, mythology, and family architecture. Whether Mountain is at work revealing the divinity of doubt, the entanglement of devotion, or the dominion that place holds over us, __High Ground Coward__ heralds a thrilling poetic debut. **From “Scav

Who reads High Ground Coward (Iowa Poetry Prize)?

Author

Alicia Mountain

Publisher

University Of Iowa Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609385460

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14