On the Loose

Acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland author of Donkey Gospel and What Narcissism Means to Me selected On the Loose by Judith Askew from a field of collections under consideration for publication by the new Bass River Press. In notes that accompanied his decision Hoagland wrote: On the Loose is a collection of poems full of distinctive wit and nine kinds of liveliness-- intellectual emotional sexual plaintive and otherwise. The poet consistently finds quick and original speech for the particularities of our human condition and she is full of witty self-perspective as well. On the Loose covers all the rites of passage including loss and sorrow but a tone of genuine amusement and the resourceful idiom to make it believable are its reliable poetic allies. Full of pleasure and sensibility this is a book that will make its readers happy.