Betrayal Creek

Kip Stratton’s Betrayal Creek is contemporary confessional poetry at its finest. It lays bare the inward landscape of an “ordinary man / with spurs and a saddle-scarred soul” through a lover’s betrayal, into the depths of depression, and finally out into the glorious Texan sunlight beckoning on the other side of a window. What’s most striking about these poems is their ability to connect the personal to the universal—the suffering of one man to the suffering of a country in peril. Betrayal ...