No Guarantee - New American Poetry Author:Craig Crist-Evans "Call it a high-octane collection of love and death poems; call it poem noir on rollerblades-romantic, pastoral, tropical, narrative, political, meditative, comic, and beautifully rendered. No Guarantee explodes like a thoroughbred from hell out of the starting gate and never lets up. I guarantee it." -Roger Weingarten"An edgy lyricism mo... more »ves through these poems, with yearnings and never-quite-consolable losses, from the other side of a difficult childhood to an adulthood the poet cannot entirely come to terms with."-Carolyne Wright"He brings major experience to the table, the well-traveled experience of a man familiar with what Stephen Spender called The destructive Element.'"-Jonathan HoldenCraig Crist-Evans is the author of North Of Everything, Moon over Tennessee, Amaryllis, and Manthology.« less