Torch Lake & Other Poems

THE MOST LYRICAL POEMS (mostly in prose) that I have read in years. A silver-tongued "I" with little concern for itself, so wakeful and watchful is it embodied, and so attuned to its bounty of fabulous perceptions. A first collection brought to a nearly translucent state of shine. --C.D. WRIGHT TORCH LAKE & OTHER POEMS is the most original and exciting collection given American poetry since Larry Levis' Elegy. There's more juice, scope, imagination and sheer vitality in this work than in tw...