Out of Idaho by Grove Koger

“Composed in both poetry and short stories, Out of Idaho portrays a world of isolation, a cast of characters close to the land, to family. Individual pieces convey loss, disaster, decay. The narrator pokes the reader with vivid imagery and vibrant action; a tight and insular world confined inside its borders. Out of Idaho delivers, through these unique compositions, the state’s scent, the sense of longitude and latitude, its attitudes. Wry and spare and inviting.”

–Ken Rodgers, Writer, Co-Director, and Co-Producer, Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor and I Married the War

“A poignant lament to life and death, the stories and poetry in Out of Idaho flow like a river, moving along with one unexpected turn after another. Often, author Grove Koger concludes a selection with a club, other times with tantalizing ambiguity. His language is gentle in a masculine way: strong, quiet and intimate. Confessional. Spare but loaded. We meet brothers and friends. Fathers and wives. Ghosts, either real or imagined. This new collection by Koger, a native Idahoan, ends with ‘Notes on Place Names,’ offering a key to the vivid sense of place that runs throughout this gem of a book.”

–Betty Rodgers, Co-Director and Co-Producer, Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor and I Married the War