David Starkey

Say This Prayer into the Past

Arts & Literature

“Judging by the poems in 'Antediluvian Baseball,' the final section of his astonishing new collection, one suspects Paul Willis could write brilliantly about anything--in heaven, or here on our 'beautiful, suffering world.' Above all, he is a poet with a keen eye and ear for the wonders of Nature's 'understory,' the layer of growth beneath a forest's canopy where 'There is / so much you will never see.' Fear not, reader: Paul Willis will show it to you.”