Etcetera's Mistress

From Thom Ward, author of "Small Boat with Oars of Different Size", "The Matter of the Casket" and "Various Orbits", comes "Etcetera's Mistress", a daring new collection of poetry, complete with original cover art by acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw. What Other Poets Say About "Etcetera's Mistress": "Reading Thom Ward is to enter a brilliant and restless imagination – sometimes poignant, sometimes crazy-with-a-purpose, but always with a deep lucidity in the logic of its illogic. His poems remind me how much we need language and how much the language needs us." – Thomas Lux "On Thom Ward's diagram of the day, no line, border, or boundary exists between dark and light sides. They overlay one another with rich and haunting texture. His navigational map, his poetic GPS, locates a landscape full of brilliantly wry and tender intelligences." – Naomi Shihab Nye "Waxing or waning, the moon's aloft in Thom Ward's stunning new prose poems, jingling sonnets, and philosophical forays, with Ward dangling from the same moon like a lovely Shakespearean fool. Here he swings nightly, panting and sweating in his night sweats and sweatpants, and caroling across the chasms of loneliness, kicking around the stars. Who better than Ward to help us love?" – Alan Michael Parker