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Garrett Stack's Yeoman's Work mines the richness of life's pitstops--weddings, funerals, trips to the Quik-Fil and Supercuts--and illuminates how closely personal narrative is tethered to place. From cowboys making coffee to doers and dreamers and taxidermists, Stack's work is a vital cultivation of individuality and an homage to the complexity of domesticity. A place doesn't exist/ until there's a story/ spinning around it, he writes. How lucky we are to hear those stories. -Lauren Shapiro, author of Easy Math

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The women and men in these poems--dirt under their nails, rust flaking off their hearts--are so fully realized they might as well be sitting next to you at the diner when you read them. Through generous empathy and a keen eye, Garret Stack reveals the cooling embers in strangers' souls before kindling them, so that they might once again faintly glow. The poems build to powerful resonant images and gut-punch final lines. Yeoman's Work is a hell of a debut. -Adam Schuitema, author of The Things We Do that Make Sense

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Garrett Stack is a teacher, writer, and communication researcher based in West Michigan He holds a master's degree from San Diego State University and a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University. As an Assistant Professor of English at Ferris State University, he teaches creative and technical writing and journalism. He lives in Rockford with his wife, Claire, and twin boys. He has won writing awards and published in various literary journals. YEOMAN'S WORK is his first collection of poetry.

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