Poetic Obituaries: In a letter to the editor

of The New York Times Book Review, [Jonathan] Williams once claimed that poetry readers could be counted "somewhere between the number of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers (several sighted in Cuba recently) and the number of California Condors." He observed too that "[t]he only poetry readers I have unearthed lately lived near Pippa Passes, Dwarf, and Monkey's Eyebrow in Kentucky; at Odd, West Virginia; and at Loafers Glory and Erect, North Carolina."

More recently Williams's poetry met a larger audience when Copper Canyon published his selected poems, Jubilant Thicket.

from Bookslut: Devotion to the Strange: Jonathan Williams and the Small Press

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