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Invasive species choke native trees, abandoned churches crumble beside failing gas stations, truckers cry in empty parking lots. If Lost maps a landscape in flux — Appalachian and unsparing — where everyone and everything is searching for meaning, shelter, or escape. Clint Bowman's debut collection.
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Inspired by the mountains, forests, animals, and people that define the region, Bowman's work offers a raw and poignant exploration of a landscape in flux — one where natural beauty and human resilience collide with environmental decay and societal neglect.

In If Lost, Bowman acts as both guide and witness, leading readers through a tapestry of vivid imagery and haunting narratives. Invasive species choke native trees, abandoned churches crumble beside failing gas stations, and truckers cry in empty parking lots. Along highways lined with restless deer, Bowman's poems examine how everyone — and everything — is searching for meaning, shelter, or escape in a world that feels perpetually on the brink.

Clint Bowman is a native of Davidson County, North Carolina. His debut chapbook, Pretty Sh!t, was published in May 2023 by Bottlecap Press. Clint is the co-founder and facilitator of the Dark City Poets Society (DCPS) in Black Mountain, NC, where he currently lives with his family. When Clint isn't volunteering his time to the DCPS, he works as a recreation coordinator— leading hikes, river cleanups, trail workdays, and other outdoor programs.

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If Lost offers us a starkly honest and rarely seen western North Carolina, with all its diverse species in bitter harmony. We cannot know what the future holds for this delicate region and its people, but these poems will keep you warm and light your way.
— Leah Hampton, author of F*ckface and Other Stories
In this astounding collection, truckers cry, milkweed and honeysuckle overtake, poinsettias wilt in winter frost, and bear hunters haunt the stories of our conscience.
— Garrett Ashley, author of Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions
You can feel the thickness in the air, the smells, the overgrown nature of it all. A poetry deeply connected to the place from which it comes.
— Keith Zarriello, lead singer of The Shivers
Bowman nails that ineffable darkness and quirky desperation so deeply ingrained in Appalachian life. He interweaves naked brutality with the underdog dignity of life in the impoverished hollers of the South.
— Seth Kauffman, lead singer of Floating Action
Bowman captures the complexity and beauty of what it means to be from the American South—the quiet, sometimes bleak magic of his world.
— Thomas Dollbaum, musician

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