Crossing the Salt Flats Format:Paperback Richard Wagener

Richard Wagener

In The Ballad of Samuel Hewitt

and his colored characters navigate a perennially perfidious Albion

In these wonderfully crafted poems we meet a fine array of characters ranging from a disgruntled 18th-century Duchess

calls "a matador of art

Crossing the Salt Flats Format:Paperback Richard WagenerCrossing the Salt Flats is Christopher Wisemans eighth book of poetry. Earlier volumes such as Postcards Home and Remembering Mr. Fox won him awards and spreading recognition. The poems in Crossing the Salt Flats expand on his visual themes memories of childhood laced with vivid detail, journeys, the historical past recreated and imagined. Christopher Wisemans poetry moves widely across time and place, searching out delight, horror, sadness, joy, love