The Mojave Road and Other Journeys

Poetry. "Bruce Williams's THE MOJAVE ROAD AND OTHER JOURNEYS is simply one of the most breathtaking and heartbreaking collections of poetry I've read in many years. These poems constitute a sequence of elegies and a folio of meditations upon illness, death and transcendence, and also upon the nature of late, redeeming love. As in Theodore Roethke's psychologically dense, timeless, and powerful poem, 'Journey to the Interior,' Bruce Williams spiritual self-confrontation charts a dangerous, often precarious landscape of intimate loss and the consequent potential for the wreckage of the self"--David St. John.