Cameron Morse

Far Other Cameron Morse

The poems in Cameron Morse's Far Other achieve qualities far beyond the courage obviously required to write them at all. The poems exhibit literary endurance. When Morse offers a prayer "To the Patron Saint of Phlebotomy," for example, he displays a talent for form and wit, essential to any art. A poem that acknowledges "the glial white in gray / matter" becomes an object of beauty; the appearance of St. Augustine alongside a two-year-old playing in the garage, pure affirmation. The images are unrelenting and tender; and Morse, himself, one of the finest poets of our time.

-Robert Stewart, Working Class: Poems.