Product Description: Book by Watson, Craig

Product Description: Book by Watson, Craig

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Product Description: Poetry. Watson's beautiful poems are 'clositive without closure' they provide the satisfaction of closure without being closed forms --Jackson MacLow. Craig Watson's work, like Beckett's and Oppen's before him, restores the word integrity to our vocabulary through the force of its resounding lucidity...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Carefully edited by his friends, Clark Coolidge and Craig Watson, the COLLECTED POEMS includes all of Michael Gizzi's books, and more than 100 pages of unpublished poetry covering the years 1975-2010, with a useful, informative introduction by William Corbett...read more

Product Description: Poetry. SECRET HISTORIES is interested in the way history is constructed as an active engagement with a non-negotiable future, as opposed to the passive receipt of past "truths." "Steppe Work" presents itself as recovered fragments from the height of the Mongol Empire, the largest land-based empire in history...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Haunted by Cocteau's version of the Orpheus myth since 1968, Craig Watson collected a palimpsest of renderings, fragments, and images from the Orphic tradition for the next 40 years. In 2008, he returned to these materials in the wake of a near fatal stroke...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Craig Watson's collections of poetry include FREE WILL (Roof, 2000), REASON (Zasterle, 2000) and PICTURE OF THE PICTURE OF THE IAMGE IN THE GLASS (O Press, 1992). He lives Conanicut Island, at the mouth of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island...read more