Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons (born 1973) is an American
These days he's traveling America on the cheap and writing about it at americanrevisionary.com.
He has been a
Works
Fiction
In The Great World (small) (2010)
This debut novel, published exclusively as an
Through him we meet other people who are just as broken, though less aware of their situation, and we view the world the narrator lives in: a post 9/11 two-dimensional world without
Living Broke: Short Stories (2010)
These stories are a collection of darkly humorous, visceral, and honest images of life in America since the turn of the century. The characters are all trying to survive and get by in spite of living in a world where there is never enough, where hard work is not rewarded the way we are always told it will be, and where the divisions between the Haves and Have Nots are increasingly obvious. These are the In-Between People - the people who believed in the Middle Class American Dream and who have found it failing, but have nothing tangible to replace it with. The victories expressed are small and short lived, while the overarching machinations - institution, ambition, greed, loneliness, and isolation - are constants.
Poetry
Conversation With Carlo (2010)
These poems, written over the first year or so of his time in Arizona and published exclusively as an e-book, are at once sad, funny, geographic, and myopic. But like all good poetry, they work to move themselves and the reader outside themselves and into a larger conversation in which words may be the most overrated commodity.
Lines From Another Book of Common Prayer (2007)
The poems in this second collection, published by POD publisher Publish America, explore the interior landscapes of the spiritual, the spectacular, and the everyday
Fragments of Unidentifiable Form (2006)
In this, his first published collection of poems, Parsons ties the internal geography of everyday life with the machinations of the outside world. By exploring the connections between these two seemingly isolated landscapes, the poems in this collection seek to outline a new geography—another continent to explore in a world that seems to be depleted, overworked, and left behind.
Non-fiction/essays
The Greyhound Quarto(2010)
Travel Writing for the real life traveler. Traveling across the country on a