In this third collection of poems by
David M. Parsons, as in both his
previous books, the reader will be
carried to many geographies, both
physical and cerebral. The poems, perhaps
the most eclectic and revealing, return to
Austin, Texas, in the turbulent and carnal
sixties, the sublime Hill Country streams,
north to a Montana’s Mystic Lake and to
hallowed Indian battle grounds. As
Parsons leads with the deftness of a wise
and worldly guide, you will travel the
tender valves of the heart, where all
creativity finds its passion, to the very
quay, that zone between reality and the
possible, what Garcia Lorca called duende.