The Lord's Own Anointed

Poetry. Illustrations by Rob Fairburn. "In Kevin Cutrer's world someone can get the Spirit from a blow on the head with a 2 x 4, or simply because his mother teaches him to read while she answers business calls on the phone, or because he realizes he has to love his brother, despite the man's ugly transgressions. It is a world of wrenching authenticity, of the near lethal transition from innocence to experience, when as one of his memorable characters says, 'knowledge / will bite you like a snake.' The poet claims in one poem to be 'an unsound witness of my own life.' But LORD'S OWN ANOINTED shows us that Cutrer has been watching passionately, accurately, and soundly all along."—Mark Jarman