I'll write it but in my measure not your clotted hexed pentameters but these quick whiplash triplets the first line breathless then a rustle of wings spilling out a long tumbling exhalation probing the margin of possibility -from "Ovid 101". John Witte's poetry sweeps the reader immediately into its crosscurrents, its passionate engagement and its ambivalence. Composed of staggered tercets, the poems in "Second Nature" track the chaotic rush and swerve of life as we live it. Wide open to the world, Witte writes with uncommon energy and urgency and his vision is exhilarating."Second Nature" teems with expertly realized lyrics, monologues, and narratives, as well as poems based on historical figures from Ovid to Janis Joplin. The metaphors for human endurance, and the transformative power of art and community, are accurate and rich. Alert to the dangers of love and loss, Witte finds his poems where sorrow and transcendence converge. Like birds singing their "desperate psalm" in a clear-cut, his poems bring us a rare kind of hope. John Witte's poems have appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Paris Review", "American Poetry Review", and, among numerous anthologies, "The Norton Introduction to Literature". The recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he lives with his family in Eugene, Oregon, where he teaches at the University of Oregon and edits "Northwest Review". "Second Nature" is his third book of poetry.
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