Restless for Words

<p>Former Shakespeare teacher novelist memoirist and founding editor of <em>Ploughshares</em> DeWitt Henry in his first full collection of poems goes in varied and unexpected directions from mapping the heart to meditating on the DNA of everyday words such as candidate. He delights in quick-witted gymnastic free association contrary directions of thought and argument and freely negotiates between the colloquial and literary the personal and the cultural and mixes moral searching with a benign self-depreciating humor. His favorite pronoun is we.  A deeply lived engaging and original debut.</p>