Trouble Lights

By William Olsen

Book Overview

Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago to the outposts of Cornwall and Guangzhou, William Olsen searches for the miracle of wholeness in small details. An urgency inhabits his poems as they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810151073
• ISBN13: 9780810151079
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Stunning and fun and beautiful

William Olsen has written yet another wonderful book of poems. He has a madman's eye for beauty, and he has discovered in this seemingly troubled world all kinds of treasures to refute the prophets of despair and defeat that write most of the modern poetry of today. Olsen's high humor lurks just below the surface and between the lines. You can't see it in the poems, but you can see it on the face of anyone you hand the book to and say, "here, read this one." He is a mind on a treasure hunt, a brain that serves as a butterfly net as he lives his life saving absolutely EVERYTHING GOOD for you and for me. I have bought two extra copies already for friends. They say what I say. You can read these for a fifth and sixth time and they will all appear to be new. None of these poems stays the same. They get better every time you read them. This is a book you will enjoy very very much.