John Witte's poetry sweeps the reader immediately into its
crosscurrents, its passionate engagement and its ambivalence.
Composed of staggered tercets, the poems in Second Nature track the
chaotic rush and swerve of life as we live it. Wide open to the
world, Witte writes with uncommon energy and urgency and his vision
is exhilarating. Second Nature teems with expertly realized lyrics,
monologues, and narratives, as well as poems based on historical
figures from Ovid to Janis Joplin. The metaphors for human
endurance, and the transformative power of art and community, are
accurate and rich. Alert to the dangers of love and loss, Witte
finds his poems where sorrow and transcendence converge. Like birds
singing their "desperate psalm" in a clear-cut, his poems bring us
a rare kind of hope.
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