Siste Viator (Four Way Books, 2006)
This book’s title is a common Roman epitaph: “Stop, traveler; what you are, I once was; what I am, you soon will be.” All but one of these poems are spoken by someone who has already died. On the last page of the book, Oblivion answers.
Praise
“Smart, witty, and wonderfully strange.” (Time Out New York)… “Grim, desperate, and funny.” (The Village Voice)… “Terrific, fearless, and deeply moving.” (The Colorado Review)… “An intimately personal work of immensely mythic proportions.” (Rain Taxi)… “These poems are permanent. There is only confidence.” (Valparaiso Poetry Review)… “One of our most exciting young poets.” (New South)
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