Trouble Lights

Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago to the outposts of Cornwall andGuangzhou William Olsen searches for the miracle of wholeness in smalldetails. An ur... » 

Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago to the outposts of Cornwall andGuangzhou William Olsen searches for the miracle of wholeness in smalldetails. An urgency inhabits his poems as they lament and protest a pandemicdisrespect for all things natural and the replacement of such with materialprogress. Olsens substantial inquiry into human existence leads him to testthe adequacy of language. His fiercely truthful meditations on contemporarylife provide that paradox of literature the exhilaration of feeling even whenreading of the tragic. It is Olsens distinct awe for our universe that offershope for retrieving all that is being lost. «