num_pages: 128
description: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. B. H. Fairchild's memory systems are the collective vision of America's despairing dreamers; failed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist priest, college boys at a burlesque theater, the last remaining cast members of The Wizard of Oz . Looming over all is the fact and the mystery of our continued renewal.
language: English
title: Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems
titlecomplete: Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 286
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: California Book Award
category: Poetry (Gold), awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company