About this item
Highlights
- the tides unbroken.
- Author(s): Evan D Williams
- 108 Pages
- Poetry, American
Description
About the Book
This debut full-length collection from prose-poet Evan D. Williams comprises two dozen pieces selected from literary journals and a further two dozen pieces that appear here for the first time.
Book Synopsis
the tides unbroken. the hidden rocks knowing nothing of battlements. the mind its own white room washed by a confluent prayer...
"To enter into Dear Excavator," says American Book Award winner Ed Bok Lee, "is to wade into an epic river-part sour dream mash, part metaphysical disquisition, part tinker's time machine, all lifeline to the jugular sublime austral light in the tradition of William Christenberry, James Agee, Whitman, and Chagall." This debut full-length collection from prose-poet Evan D. Williams comprises two dozen pieces selected from literary journals-including Borderlands and The Mud Season Review-and a further two dozen pieces that appear here for the first time. The volume is divided into seven abstractly thematic parts-starting with Maps of the World in Its Becoming and concluding with The Crocodiles Who Look Back Into an Abyss of Time-which are introduced with striking ink drawings by Southwestern outsider artist JC McCarthy. "Somewhere in the middle of this singularly post-Gothic landscape," Lee continues, "you'll awaken to find yourself soaring through an Inner Americana exhumed back to miraculous life by the sheer forces of love and lyricism."
Review Quotes
"Dear Excavator addresses the earthy boom and dip between 'the high beams of Volvos' and 'transparent ocean flowers.' What remains is unclean with joy."
- Samuel Clare Knights, PEN Award-winning author
"Part sour dream mash, part metaphysical disquisition, part tinker's time machine, all lifeline to the jugular sublime austral light in the tradition of William Christenberry and Walt Whitman."
- Ed Bok Lee, American Book Award-winning poet
"The ice caps bleed and the forests burn and Evan D. Williams cradles another poem, wet and copper-scented, a spring lamb born in the fall."
- E.D.W. Lynch, creator of Yelping with Cormac
"A hope dream partially remembered, a vision quest, a revelation, real, surreal, gorgeous, masterful."
- Mary Gauthier, Grammy-nominated songwriter
"A tender dispatch on all that spoils and prospers in the living Americana."
- Freddy Dewe Mathews, artist and author of Bouvetøya
"The perfect collection to disappear into."
- Elizabeth Greenwood, author of Playing Dead