Dreamsoak

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Will Russo's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dreamsoak </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>speaks to us with an uncanny braid of eloquence and strangeness as if simultaneously channeling the rhetorical decorum of Yeats and the hallucinatory power of Rimbaud. <span>?</span>Russo makes his poems sparkle in their exploration of innovative forms that scurry across the page yet he also draws from the oldest sources of lyricism: longing loneliness despair desire and a keen attentiveness to the world as experienced through the senses. These poems fill me with delight and joy. Even on the grayest days of winter they are a kind of [d]aylight / filling the lung of my living room.</span></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Nathan Hoks author of <em>Nests in Air</em></li></ul>