num_pages: 116
description: The poems in this first collection brim with promise, a promise raised upon an intricate stylistic scaffolding. The reader can feel a flower bud straining against its botanical limits, itching to bloom. Carefully sculpted form suggests an imaginative marrying of matter and manner. A striking quality is the unabashed address, denuded of the usual innuendoes. It is frank, honest and sometimes "...have you ever thought of dying young/to leave to the world a beautiful corpse/free of wrinkles/shorn of scorn..." A certain prosaicness is a preparation for higher, richer octaves, only an articulatory clearing of the throat. A poet to watch.
language: English
title: Bread and Blood Tonics
titlecomplete: Bread and Blood Tonics
publisher: PublishAmerica