The Blue Island

Readers will find themselves underlining Douglas Cole's rich and many-sided new poems in the collection, The Blue Island. Cole is a masterful poet of both long-march poems and brief lyric pieces. Cole's poems are oceanic, "full of force and fury."

Red Shuttleworth, author of Straight Ahead, Homeward, High Plains Fandango and many more works of poetry and drama

In The Blue Island, Douglas Cole's poems appear on the page like high-speed films or Fourth of July fireworks. The language is rapid...