POLAROID POEMS
Winner of the Spring 1995 White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Chapbook Contest
Polaroid Poems is a worthy collection. Spring is hard after meaning, and thankfully he isn't so bound up in self or the conventions of 'gratitude" that he can't detect the looking. His needs are too pressing for that: as real as the spliced narrative he finds himself in, as real as the goodness of that mystery, as real as the corresponding gaps in our attempts to understand ourselves. He wants to be loved, sure, but he insists on living as well. There's courage in that integrity. I enjoyed the ride.
David Craig
Contest Judge