Wasteland Honey: Poems

WASTELAND HONEY: POEMS offers to us the living and dying world with which we contend-or to which we surrender. Robert Clinton speaks of the devils who rob the earth but he makes a place in his verse for the rose-clean vigorous fragrant. Contrasting tempers and riddling parables are framed by rhythms and fluency of diction that achieve a unique formal structure for each poem. WASTELAND HONEYS arresting and eccentric metaphors linger like the burning touch of a thistle. The combination of heart-on-sleeve humanity with linguistic happiness offers the full range of poetic pleasures. Robert Clintons poems take chances and get away with it. They are the work of a thoroughly sophisticated and original mind. - Linda Bamber Metropolitan Tang: Poems;