Playing Poker with Tennessee Williams

Poetry. If you haven’t already, you’ll fall in love with Pilkington’s voice when you read ‘Pomegranate, ’ the first poem in this new, crazy-wonderful collection. Vivid detail wound with delicious humor augmented by the elegant, quiet, remarkable imagery of his closure. There’s a comfortable, highly-intelligent oddness on these pages, page after page of consciousness-changing images, and moments of such vulnerability that you’ll forget you’re reading and find you want to reach out and comfort the speaker. I couldn’t put this book down. I went from poem to poem feeling my jaw dropping successively lower as I progressed. Buy this book–it’ll repay you with so many marvelings you’ll go right back to the first page when you finish the last. This is brilliant work.–Renee Ashley