Torch Lake Other Poems Author:Brian Johnson THE MOST LYRICAL POEMS (mostly in prose) that I have read in years. A silver-tongued ?I? with little concern for itself, so wakeful and watchful is it embodied, and so attuned to its bounty of fabulous perceptions. A first collection brought to a nearly translucent state of shine. ?C.D. WRIGHT TORCH LAKE & OTHER POEMS is the most original... more » and exciting collection given American poetry since Larry Levis? Elegy. There?s more juice, scope, imagination and sheer vitality in this work than in twenty run-of-the-mill collections. ?GRAY JACOBIK« less