(spill-o)

Spill-O, a poetic alter-ego or astral double along the lines of John Berryman?s Henry, leaps the ramparts of humility to engage the creatures whose shadows shape our days. More grandiose than polite poetry permits, more conniving than a dissipated innocent would attempt and more venomous than mysticism would seem to allow, Spill-O?s honest explorations animate these poems with the heartfelt, desperate love of things that neither he nor anyone can necessarily justify or defend.The poems in this and the other three volumes in this series have appeared in more than a hundred eighty publications, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. The poet and songwriter David Berman (Silver Jews, Actual Air) said of them: ?These are very good poems. For moments I could even feel the old feelings when I read them.?