Description
Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth's Gator: Essays is a collection of essays by Michael Perry. The essays cover a variety of topics, including lot lizards, Klan wizards, and small-town funerals. The essays are written in a wise and witty manner, and are balanced earthiness with poetry. The essays are also salted with Perry's unique brand of humor.
Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global. Ranging across subjects as diverse as lot lizards, Klan wizards, and small-town funerals, Perry's writing in this wise and witty collection of essays balances earthiness with poetry, kinetics with contemplation, and is regularly salted with his unique brand of humor.