“Sara Burge’s Apocalypse Ranch delivers meaty narratives that burst through the starting gate and don’t let up. Here, the small-town worlds of hillbillies and horses, Black Angus and busted lips soothed with sips of Orange Cruch, are shaped into unrelenting song, a mean, rhythmic music that gallops down the page like Burge’s ‘pale horse,’ snorting and shaking, ‘hell-benet on pounding earth.'”
—Dorianne Laux, author of What We Carry