Twist the Axe: A Horseplayer's Story

Poetry. Prose. Cross Genre. "One way or another, Maj Ragain is going to touch you as you read his work. And you're going to like it. He may get you in the funny bone or you may find out for yourself that he sports the Tenderest Knockout Punch in the world. He also can wield a poleaxe ("The Last Horserace in Thessaloniki"); mainly he chooses to shuttle casually back and forth between what the Romans called gravitas and what Raymond Carver, in his last days, called gravy. It's a book about living life fully among others doing the same. The subject is the racetrack, but grace, in its many aspects, turns up in guise after guise. It's a book I bet you'll enjoy"-William Pitt Root. Maj Ragain combines poetry and journal entries with newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs and horse pedigrees in what Gary Gildner calls his "love affair with the horses and luck and life and sweet naming." The author has written three previous collections of poetry, including BURLEY ONE DARK SUCKER FIRED