The Loneliest Whale in the World

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The very cool My Chili Recipe: An </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Ars Poetica</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> includes an actual chili recipe as well as advice that's excellent for chili and poetry: stir occasionally. A good poem requires a kind of mixing or churning a change (or changes) in direction in tone or feeling if it's to offer anything new or worthwhile and imagination is always the source of the stir. What I find so pleasurable about Tom C. Hunley's poems is the multifaceted nature of his imagination whether conceptual ethical sonic emotional or imagistic. I had faith in this book from the first few pages both that the poems would have something to offer something to say and that I wouldn't be able to predict what that was. That's the way it is with the best cooks-they deliver the goods but you don't know how. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Bob Hicok </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Water Look Away</em></p>