Xanax Cowboy: Poems

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.

ISBN: 9781487011154
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
Published: April 04, 2023

"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"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