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Stutter : Poems by William Billiter is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Stutter : Poems about?

Billiters poems, spaced to stutter on the page, create a compelling yet dark world of small-town childhood that is disorienting and not all that bucolic. The town of Shinbone is an intense place: boys set bottles of cheap aftershave on fire, which segues with uncomfortable ease into grandmothers killing axe dispatching chickens and Soups hand shredded in the corn dryer. This collection pushes a recollected past to an extreme, replacing memory with myth and lacing narratives of disfigurement, accident, wildness, and murder with a strange enchantment. Childhood here is no idyll, but rather the dreamlike entryway to the desires, doubts, and dismay of adulthood.

Author

William Billiter

Publisher

Athens: University of Georgia Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820338811

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24