High Water Mark: Prose Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

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Summary: The answer to 11 across was dunderhead
Review: The two things I didn't like about this book were the title cover that claimed it won some poetry prize and the inside sheet that said publication was supported by a grant by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. Why can't poetry exist without prizes and subventions? Why can't it stand on its own two feet? Be its own thing (I almost wrote be its own person)? Truth and beauty succinctly expressed should have not trouble existing independently in this wide world and this marvelous example of beauty and truth should have no trouble either. Every real writer knows how language fails to fully express the things we think and feel. It's like a ship that never quite comes into port, never quite arrives home. And yet, and yet, this collection of great poems comes remarkably close. Bravo! From one world class alcoholic to another: Bravo!