Secrets No One Must Talk about

Poetry. Martin Willitts Jr's SECRETS NO ONE MUST TALK ABOUT is likea small verbal portrait of a Mojave soul-scape. Infused withthe same sweet but rugged solemnity as writers like Lorca andVallejo (whose ghosts flicker in the margins), SECRETS NO ONE MUST TALK ABOUT reflects a dangerous frontier-town ethos that isalive with curious and unmentionable secrets, the hidden litanyof daily griefs, that is the poet's private curse and blessing todredge cautiously into the light. A strange and marvelous work, soft as wetted sand, hard as a sun-bleached stone.--Seth Jani