Watch That Side

Poetry. "Call them funny, grounded, startling, erudite—they are all that and more but don't try to measure or sum up Tom Weigel's poems in conventional terms. You'll get about as far as a car without wheels. Even as they traffic in the obvious they are its antitheses. So 'Get out the toolbox / it's time to open / a cough drop.' In this world of 'either thugs or humbugs' you don't need a roadmap to get your mind around the fractured or inverted aphorism, wiseacre digs, dogged reportage and broad ranging cultural commentary in WATCH THAT SIDE. What you need is an open heart. Make sure it's in your pocketbook when you turn the first page. Here is a technical mastery so confident it's invisible. 'Nowhere quick is a very long time' indeed, comrades."—Jim Cory