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Things happen in Tony Whedon's new book of poems on a remote cluster of wind-battered islands in the South Atlantic, in a Nova Scotia fishing town, or on a misguided sailing trip to Cuba. In these narrative poems, people make love, fall in love and fall apart: hounded by memory, they flee to farther-off places, but can't avoid the past. This double-barreled narrative brings together the geographical and spiritual antipodes in an interplay of f...

Sometimes, " Tony Whedon tells us in his brilliant new book, Drunk in the Woods, "I think there's such a thing as an alcoholic landscape." With such clarity Whedon tells of his close-to-the-bone experiences of gardening, cutting wood, and exploring the back country of northern Vermont woven into a lively, sometimes harrowing personal narrative, providing a fresh perspective on how "living wild" impinges on the mind of the suffering-and-then re...

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Tony Whedon's new book The Hatcheck Girl vividly describes border crossings where language, culture and states of consciousness collide. In these richly layered poems about jazz most of the musicians we meet are sidemen: few are famous, most are notorious. They're united, as he says in his opening poem "The Tradition of the New, " by their devotion to the music and by their appetite for a note, a phrase to "make it new . . . over and over." Wh...