Clark Coolidge's writing is some of the most thoroughly modern I've ever known. With subjects ranging from plasticine to a bolas, & with another interesting collage thing (visual art, not the poetry, though the poetry is kind of like that too...), this is a great book to have.

Avant garde poet, graphic designer, publisher and hoodoo god, Keith Waldrop, has written a roman a clef based on his family,a tragic comically wierd tale, told with straight faced, just-the-facts-mam restraint and sympathy. The prose is beautifully pitched, clear, resonant. Buy this book now.

The wisened poet out of Providence, Keith Waldrop, pens one of the finest American "novels" in recent memory. At first glance, the book may read like further lines of poetry from the virtuoso from Brown University. Indeed, each line falls on the page as a poetic shadow stepping out of his memory; but just as the piece (subtitled "Memory Stand-Ins") locks its gaze on more than memories, so does the book of lines talk like a novel once undressed by a careful and complete read. A novel where the chief character may be the mind, thought the action, and time the antagonist, but a novel nonetheless, "Silhouette of the Bridge" rewards a patient reading. The most recent crop from years of cultivating the vine, these lines, if sipped, will individually inspire the palate. But more, they will return the reader to his/her world with eyes slightly inebriated and a mind, as if from a dream, filled to the lip with someone else's memory.