The Scarecrow Alibis

Winner of the 2022 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize, The Scarecrow Alibis is the 5th book of poems by Brooklyn poet Denver Butson. Hailed as a "psalm for the dispossessed" by Doug Ramspeck and a "a love letter to the blundering, persistently tender self" by Zoë Ryder White," The Scarecrow Alibis contains poems first published in Willow Springs, Caliban, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. About this book, celebrated novelist Colum McCann writes "these are wonderful poems--sharp, transgressive, funny, alluring, and extraordinarily powerful. They knock our comfortable balance all to hell, and then they help stitch our imaginations back together again."