Poetry
104 Pages
ISBN: 1-59766-003-5
Paper: $15.95

Randall Watson’s first full-length collection reveals the tenderness in situations so extreme, we would normally consider them hallucinatory. Tornadoes, floods, sudden transformations, inexplicable weeping, tragic waitresses, “A woman and a man and what lies between them, / a wall and a look, an eye, a house / in Paris, a rising, a trinity / of entrance, triumvirate / of possibility.” All of this is wrought with such crispness of timing, such fresh and intimate voicing, that it is a great pleasure to read. You will recognize a world you never suspected you had known.