Cuttings from the Tangle

For nearly three decades, musical artist Richard Buckner has traveled the byways of America, often alone and with little more than his guitars and notebooks. Now he's sharing what he saw, felt, and found.Long admired for his impressionistic and elliptical lyrics, and intimate performances with audiences, Richard Buckner has more recently found himself pulling off the road to furiously write longer, fuller pieces. Here is a collection of his story-like poems gathered by haunting the fringes of America: lingering in dive bars and greasy spoon diners, passing sleepless nights in seedy motels.he'd swallowed her youth in sips so small she wouldn't notice until it was eventually but-remembered on dark afternoonsWith titles such as "One More Last One," "Everyone is driven unknowingly to their urges," and simply "Work," these are Buckner's unique and singular reports from a visionary road. reappraising past decisions in renewable review, demanded by the weight of explanations that can still determine what drove you elsewhere then, now with no-where left to wait. Black Sparrow Press is proud to bring this remarkable debut work of prose-poetry to readers.