Jared Stanley is the author of the full-length poetry collection Book Made of Forest (Salt, 2009) and four chapbooks, including How the Desert Did Me In. He lives in the San Joaquin Valley with an historian and a couple of rabbits.
Reading, and re-reading these poems, you’ll find lines which are so outrageous, hilarious, and true that they get lodged in your head, like songs; and, you’ll find yourself quoting the…