Book description
Jim Dodge said he would consider publishing a volume of poetry if he
lived to the millennium. Happily he did, and Rain on the River is the
immediate result - work selected from his Tangram chapbooks, broadsides,
and Solstice poems, accompanied by three dozen new poems. If you've
enjoyed his fiction, Dodge's first collection of poems and short prose
offer similar pleasures: a splendid ear for language, great emotional
range and subtlety, a sharp eye for the illuminating detial, and a
sensibility that encompasses outright hilarity, savage wit, and tender
marvel - all made eminently accessible through writing of uncompromising
clarity and grace.
