Will Walker has written a collection of poems so intelligent and clear that reading them I wake up-and find myself alive in the world. This is what art can do-and every time it happens its a miracle. Here is a miraculous book-awake to what the Buddhists call the "full catastrophe" of living right now. If you want to feel yourself alive and in great company, buy this book and read it, and then pass it on.
-Marie Howe, author of The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
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here is a calm meditative grace to the poems in Will Walkers Wednesday After Lunch. His is a narrative "in the American grain," to use...