"Lewis Warsh
that contend and question
and celestial objects ignored or rejected by mainstream world cultures
absence and bewilderment while allowing associative logic to make poetic leaps in imagination and mood that belie convention
pulling us into a moving current of painted images
The Desert John Wieners "Lewis WarshBrandon Shimoda Brandon Shimodas The Desert, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award winning book Evening Oracle, guides us deep into, and then back out of, a rich yet desolate North American landscape. Divided into seven sections featuring poems, letters, diary entries, and photographs the deserts multiplicity emerges through a ranging exploration of its Japanese American incarceration sites, homeless population, flora and fauna, violence,