The Stranger World [Hardcover]

Ryan Wilsons unsettling debut collection The Stranger World is filled with poems of menace and?promise, surprise and sorrow, tempered by gentle humor and always tuned to a fine music. The?long poem Authority reads like a masterpiece of modern horror. The deeply psychological Xenia?is a minor miracle of a poem. These pages contain real shores across imagined seas . . . where black suns set, where the poet meditates on that present unity / of absences the living move among. Each page of The Stranger World yields a new delight. Wilson proves himself a worthy heir to Anthony Hecht with this remarkable, disarming, and genuinely moving book. Seek it out.
 Ernest Hilbert