In the Evening of No Warning
poems by Kevin Clark
PUBLICATION: MARCH 2002
From its beautifully poised title piece to its powerful concluding meditation on “Granting the Wolf,” Kevin Clark's haunted and haunting In the Evening of No Warning is by turns celebratory, sardonic, and elegiac. Clark is a deeply thoughtful poet whose narrative gift is always enhanced by a searching and restless consciousness; his melodies are limber, his language scrupulous and urgent.
—Sandra M. Gilbert
Kevin Clark's new volume of poetry wears the anxious velvet mantle of Time gone magical with sleights of hand. What vanishes is us. Yet, the very passing itself, musical with its children's hour, becomes the unthinkable and sublime refuge that all the local nostalgias gather about. Many of these poems are altogether sweet and perfect. This is a wonderful book.
—Norman Dubie
