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Greetings from Bullhead Country

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A small Minnesota town. Two generations. One boy learning where he comes from.

Greetings From Bullhead Country is a collection of narrative poems set in a Minnesota small town in the 1960s and 70s, capturing family, neighborhood, and memory as the world shifts. Scott Vetch follows a curious boy learning from farming grandparents shaped by hard seasons and suburban parents navigating cultural change. With humor and insight, the poems offer vivid portraits, family lore, and quiet turning points—an honest, tender look at how love, hardship, and everyday rituals form who we become.

Always just this side of lawless.

—Fizz Kizer

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Greetings From Bullhead Country is a collection of narrative poems rooted in family, neighborhood, and memory—set in a small town in Minnesota in the 1960s and 70s, when the world was shifting fast and home was shifting with it.

Scott Vetch captures the transitioning life of a curious boy trying to understand the people who raised him: farming grandparents shaped by hard seasons and earned wisdom, and suburban parents reacting in their own way to the cultural changes of the era. Between them, he listens, questions, laughs, and learns—looking for the patterns that make a family a family.

With insight and humor, these poems offer advice and family tales, vivid portraits of ordinary lives, and the quiet turning points that shape a child into himself. At its heart, this collection is an honest, tender look at how we’re formed by the people who love us, the hardships they endure, and the everyday things they hold dear.

Product Details

PublishedDecember 18, 2025
ImprintCalumet Editions
LanguageEnglish
Print length152
ISBN-139781962834643
Dimensions5 x 0.38 x 8 inches