Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award
Winner, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
The Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip.
Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award
Winner, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
The Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip.
| Published By | House of Anansi Press Inc — Apr 4, 2023 |
| Specifications | 128 pages | 6 in x 8 in |
| Keywords | dunk tank; kayla czaga; let the world have you; mikko harvey; for em; sanna wani; my grief; the sun; contemporary poetry; canadian poetry; poetry collectors; |
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HANNAH GREEN<\/strong> is a writer and poetry editor at CV2. She was a poetry finalist for the 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She lives in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n |
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HANNAH GREEN<\/strong> is a writer and poetry editor at CV2. She was a poetry finalist for the 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She lives in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n |
Winner, Governor General's Literary Award in the Poetry Category, 2023
Winner, League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, 2024
Commended, CBC 2023 Best Canadian Poetry, 2023
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\"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<\/strong><\/p>” —Winnipeg Free Press
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\"Hannah Green’s figurative language is so dazzling, her tone so sardonically witty … her debut is indeed a romp.\" — Toronto Star<\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —Shakespearean Rag
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\"Even as it treats serious topics like romanticizing addiction, Xanax Cowboy <\/em>is riotously funny, brimming with wit and bravado … Exceptional debut.\" — ARC Poetry<\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —Freefall
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“Reading [Xanax Cowboy<\/em>] is an undeniably cinematic experience … There is so much gold that has been dug-up in this wild-west.” — The Fiddlehead <\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —Winnipeg Free Press
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\"Playing on the way suffering has been romanticized in writers and in cowboys, Green skewers this cultural demand for authenticity.\" — Winnipeg Free Press<\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —Quill & Quire, STARRED REVIEW
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\"A true original – smart and aggressive and assured.\" — Shakespearean Rag<\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —Toronto Star
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\"A bingeable book of poetry … Xanax Cowboy <\/em>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<\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —ARC Poetry
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\"Breaching borders and breaking boundaries … [Xanax Cowboy<\/em>] subverts expectations with feminist contortions in the twists and turns of phrase, form, and verse.\" — The Miramichi Reader<\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —
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“Brimming with verve, wit and bravado, Hannah Green’s Xanax Cowboy<\/em> is a brain-jolting joy.” — The Ampersand Review<\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —
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\"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<\/strong><\/p>” —Dallas Hunt, author of Creeland
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\"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<\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —Jury Citation, 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award
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\"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<\/em><\/strong><\/p>” —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 CreelandXanax 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