In the Evening of No Warning
poems by Kevin Clark
from NEW ISSUES POETRY AND PROSE
PUBLICATION: MARCH 2002
Kevin Clark's poetry understands the limits of eros by experiencing those limits openly and thoroughly… And he understands passion for what it is, polymorphous, heartstrong and headdriven, not idea finally or ever, but protean force, to be ridden and ridden out and ridden again. Somehow this ecstatic poetry stops short of oblivion, accepts its margins, and seeks out the lovely surviving presences of marriage and family. I love this book for the flash and patience of its intelligence, but I learn what love is by the unique human occasion of it.
—William Olsen
