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Poet, Essayist, Ne're-do-well,
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A bit about the books ...
"Central to his project is Perkins’ gentle urgency to decisively seize primacy back from the critics, and to reconnect readers with the text, the hand that wrote it, and the tradition it extends. This is brave stuff."
"A wise and generous collection ... we have been met with a rare gift."
— Marc Zegans
GLASS: A Journal of Poetry
"I May or May Not Love You teems with the language of living and loving that we can hold close without the dread of betrayal. His lines make the mundane significant, and we are drawn into his work as if by a warm magic that we can trust ... chock full of allusion, metaphor, and the full force of narrative ... I applaud these poems' capacity for love."
— Jim Barnes
"Endearingly reflective, these poems arrive quietly but keep us alert to wonder. What a blessing it is to journey with a poet whose observations about life, love, and loss sparkle with clarity and wisdom."
— Rigoberto González
Forthcoming, Fall 2023
Forthcoming, Fall 2023
IN FROM FOREVER travels through light and dark, and those other disparate landscapes of loss, and of love, and vulnerabilities, and then some bravado—many of the vicissitudes common to our lives lived in a sometimes vexing 21st century and fraught with so many more questions than there seem to be resolutions.
He attempts to create an orderly poetic universe out of that turbulent chaos, and the reader is invited, if not to hold his hand in mutual support, then to walk with him a while to see what we may sometimes together share, at least as far as our words might bring us together.
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