Craig Watson
FREE WILL
by Craig Watson
"Craig Watson's work, like Beckett's and Oppen's before him,restores the word integrity to our voucabulary through the force of its resounding lucidity, its uncowered abilty to face and state truths we'd prefer to avoid, its total divestiture of all holdings in the lie, the diversion, the "spectacle." Intractable and disquieting, Watson's stunning new poems show us what remains after "the sum of ecstasy and superstition" has been taken. They are works of radical consequence for any mind that would be free. "
- Steve Evans