How to Drown a Boy Allen D. Hertzke and burial mounds

and burial mounds

racial segregation was the rule

Grant and Lee were will- ing to take significant risks to seek great advantage

unwanted pregnancy

and universal white

How to Drown a Boy Allen D. Hertzke and burial moundsHow to Drown a Boy, a debut collection of poems by J. Bruce Fuller, investigates how boyhood and fatherhood entwine to create cycles that mimic decaying and dangerous natural surroundings. The woods, the water, the oil rigs, and the men who work them all have a powerful effect on the speaker from childhood through adulthood. These poems examine the weight of family and culture against a backdrop of climate change and environmental disaster.