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BAR SNATCH ....William Williamson Forty eight poems comprising snippets of conversation, observations, thoughts, the life you find in bars, saloons, cafes, cocktail lounges where people go and expose themselves to each other over beer, wine and liquor. There is nothing new here except the clarity of Williamson's words defining what he sees and feels while trying to predict the outcome. They are naked honest reflections staring back from the mirrors in the bar. All patrons bringing their charms and weapons to the stool are targets. There is no quiet surrender in Williamson's world. There is...

A MERE MISCELLANY Of MIDNIGHT MADRIGALS Is a new book of poems by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William's three novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy. Williamson's poetry is clean, stark and direct. Colloquial observations in his life and the world around him, as well as ruminations on writing. His work is always significant in the way he moves poetry to make lyrical beauty with words. Williamson calls it big woman emotion. Big woman emotion is what we feel. Big woman emotion stirs the mind, ignites the loins, and conquers the soul. It brings forth...

Millennium Maladies Is a new book of prose poems by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William's three novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy. Williamson's prose is always clean, stark and direct, at times, graphic, as he dissects life and the world around him, as well as his ruminations on writing and that holds true in Millennium Maladies where he captures the trying times and difficult situations we all find ourselves submerged in, at some point during our lives. Williamson calls those moments, those feelings, big woman emotion. Big woman emotion is...

69 POEMS ON A SUNDOG DAY Is a new book of poems by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William Williamson's three novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy. These poems, written during a two-week span while staying in a hotel room in South Florida, William wanted to sketch the wind and have the body of work move like water with the end of each poem flowing into the next poem, so the reader hears the words, as William first heard them. Williamson's poetry is clean, stark and direct. Colloquial observations in his life and the world around him, as well as...

SOME CAME FIRST is a gritty, coming-of-age novel set in the Florida Keys spanning the tumultuous sixties, the debauchery defining seventies decade as illicit smuggling and bacchanalian revelry renames the islands, Margaritaville, to the sobering early eighties when AIDS came aboard. Told through the maturing eyes of Conch born native, Henry Roberts, the azure coral reefs, tropical heat, colorful characters who are determined to keep their heads above water and unique history mapping the Keys, all come vividly alive. If you enjoy reading contemporary South Florida fiction, SOME CAME FIRST will...

A KILLING FROST FALLS DOWN TONIGHT by William Williamson Is a new book of prose by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William's three novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy. In A KILLING FROST FALLS DOWN TONIGHT, Williamson explores the intricate boundaries of life and death between family, lovers and friends with prose that is clean, stark and direct, as well as colloquial observations in his life and the world around him and ruminations on writing. His work is always significant in the way he moves poetry to make lyrical beauty with words. Williamson...

First & Last Impressions from the Lost & Found, William Williamson's eighth book of published prose is as shaved and naked as his first seven books. Poetic prose that can just as easily cut to the quick of a fingernail, to a magic moment of tenderness from that same wounded finger tracing the pulse of a lover's juggler vein. Like his previous works, colloquial observations of life and relationships abound that is guaranteed to illicit a litany of both familiar and unexpected emotions in the reader. Big woman emotion as William has defined it. Prose that flows like water, breathing life, words...

ACCEPT NO PRESENTS AND GIVE NO PARDONS, A POET IS ON HIS OWN, a conceptual body of work, written in third person, celebrating and questioning the hard dualities we all find, at times, in our life and in our relationships is the latest book of prose by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William Williamson's three literary novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy. William's work, his novels and poetry is always shaved, naked and direct. And in his latest book of prose, he lays bare and defines the theater of love during life that climaxes in what he calls, big...