WEDNESDAY AFTER LUNCH
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Will Walker has written a collection of poems so intelligent and clear that reading them I wake up-and find myself alive in the world. This is what art can do-and every time it happens its a miracle. Here is a miraculous book-awake to what the Buddhists call the full catastrophe of living right now. If you want to feel yourself alive and in great company, buy this book and read it, and then pass it on.-Marie Howe, author of The Kingdom of Ordinary TimeThere is a calm meditative grace to the poems in Will Walkers Wednesday After Lunch. His is a narrative in the American grain, to use William Carlos Williams phrase. While some are quiet lyric poems of love of landscape and streetscape and quite human dogs, and some of a sweet domestic love, even asleep, a man and his wife on your own side/of the bed/ split neatly into neighboring countries, Walkers work has that very American room for Khrushchev at the UN pounding his shoe, and rhinestones, and Monopoly, and Jack Ruby, and Marilyn Monroe. In a tour de force of a poem, he writes of a dream of a bonfire, a barbecue on the flats in Provincetown, everyone from his Edenic past reunited, and even the ocean loves to gather by fire. These are poems to warm yourself by.-Gail Mazur, author of Zeppos First WifeIWf you want a batch of poems that are consistently good, if you consistently enjoy the poems of, say, Billy Collins or William Stafford or Sharon Olds, and if you were inclined to take any one of them with you to a desert island, mountain retreat, or simply to your own home, you may find yourself content in the company of Will Walkers poems. All things being relative in poetry, these poems tend toward the precise and the astounding; these are most often stories told with attention to where any parts of the story are likely to lead the reader, digression to detour and closer inspection to wider perspective: like the diagram of the city containing the aroma and curiosity of time before you-past, fut
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