Trees, Coffee, and the Eyes of Deer - Tapa blanda

Poetry. "Grapes speaks for the extraordinary in the ordinary, for the life in old shoes, the overcoat you didn't hang up, for whatever life, humanity, possibility that can come from chaos.... In his work and in his presentation of himself, a surface geniality frequently masks something dark and bloody.... This flip-flop from genial buffoonery to commandant of the dark side seems paradigmatic of Grapes approach to poetry"--Nancy Shiffrin, Los Angeles Times.