Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
Poems
13 July 2004
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
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.
Reviews
"These poems make a rare, magical conjunction between a communal sense of place and a solitary habit of memory." — Eavan Bloand
"Fairchild is in touch with that America we almost forgot, melancholy, dream-ridden, wistful, ghost-like." — Gerald Stern
"What an exaltation!" — Richard Howard
Awards
Winner — Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, 2004
Winner — California Book Award, 2002
Winner — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2002
Also By: B. H. Fairchild 
An Ordinary Life: Poems
Paperback, 2024
A poet whose work is "a cause of celebration" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary
An Ordinary Life: Poems
Hardback, 2023
A poet whose work is “a cause of celebration” (John Freeman, Boston Globe) reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary.
The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems
Paperback, 2016
“[B. H. Fairchild] is the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic.”—The New York Times
The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems
E Book, 2014
“[B. H. Fairchild] is the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic.”—New York Times
Usher: Poems
Paperback, 2011
"Meaty, maximalist, driven by narrative, [Fairchild] stakes out an American mythos."—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times