Xanax Cowboy

"Green’s debut is timely and witty. It leaves nothing off stage, hides nothing. It is a revelation of living in our anxious times. It is wisely engaging." — Quill & Quire, STARRED REVIEW

"Hannah Green’s figurative language is so dazzling, her tone so sardonically witty … her debut is indeed a romp." — Toronto Star

"Even as it treats serious topics like romanticizing addiction, Xanax Cowboy is riotously funny, brimming with wit and bravado … Exceptional debut." — ARC Poetry

“Reading [Xanax Cowboy] is an undeniably cinematic experience … There is so much gold that has been dug-up in this wild-west.” — The Fiddlehead 

"Playing on the way suffering has been romanticized in writers and in cowboys, Green skewers this cultural demand for authenticity." — Winnipeg Free Press

"A true original – smart and aggressive and assured." — Shakespearean Rag

"A bingeable book of poetry … Xanax Cowboy displays a raw honesty on important topics. Green balances tone and content, form and media, to deliver a powerhouse of a debut book from title to finishing line." — Freefall

"Breaching borders and breaking boundaries … [Xanax Cowboy] subverts expectations with feminist contortions in the twists and turns of phrase, form, and verse." — The Miramichi Reader

"Xanax Cowboy is a meta-poetic romp that chews through the lexicons of pulp, pop, and academia, spitting out pieces that are at once campy, dark, and gnawingly tender, with a bravado and showmanship that challenge conventions of power, performance, gender, and genre. Through roving tours of tone and tactic … Hannah Green mounts a contemporary antihero with both a light and devastating touch, knowing just when to loosen the slack and when to jerk the line arrestingly taut." — Jury Citation, 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award

"I’ve never read anything quite like Xanax Cowboy, with its lassoed dream logic or its pistol-drawn showdown with dread. But that’s life when you live in a Wild West of anxiety, and nowhere else can you find this prescription-laced, wasp-sting aesthetic. Hannah Green’s poems are a form-bending live wire, a chainsaw ethos that carves its way through the desert sunset. A long howl in cowboy boots that refuses to be wrangled, Xanax Cowboy is original and compelling." — Andrew Faulkner, author of Heady Bloom

"A fierce collection on cowboy boots and alienation, with incisive and insightful thoughts on navigating mental health, Hannah Green’s debut is all tooth and claw. It bristles, sears, and haunts. At once individual, and yet illuminating in the affective commons it articulates, Hannah has created a home here — come dwell." — Dallas Hunt, author of Creeland

A fierce collection on cowboy boots and alienation, with incisive and insightful thoughts on navigating mental health, Hannah Green’s debut is all tooth and claw. It bristles, sears, and haunts. At once individual, and yet illuminating in the affective commons it articulates, Hannah has created a home here — come dwell.

Xanax Cowboy is a meta-poetic romp that chews through the lexicons of pulp, pop, and academia, spitting out pieces that are at once campy, dark, and gnawingly tender, with a bravado and showmanship that challenge conventions of power, performance, gender, and genre. Through roving tours of tone and tactic … Hannah Green mounts a contemporary antihero with both a light and devastating touch, knowing just when to loosen the slack and when to jerk the line arrestingly taut.