Poetry. ILLEGIBLE ADDRESS is the third book of poetry by celebrated Brooklyn poet Denver Butson, whose work has been praised by W.S. Merwin, Billy Collins, Agha Shahid Ali, Jim Harrison, Thom Gunn, and Edmund White, among others. In poems that attempt "to argue with smoke," Butson merges real and imagined street scenes, true and possibly false memories, earnest and playful love pleas, executing a rich poetic investigation of loss and redemption

Of ILLEGIBLE ADDRESS, Tomaž Šalamun writes: "Denver Butson sings the paradise he has lost—the beloved body he has lost, the skin, the air, the views, the bruises—everything he has lost, or so he says. But he hasn't lost; he has gained, and the reader wants to be there, at the exact 'lost' spot, transported on the magic carpet of the author's words. It's like coming home for me. Thank you, Denver."

Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA

Denver Butson has published three books of poems: triptych (The Commoner Press, 1999), Mechanical Birds (St. Andrews College Press, 2001), and ILLEGIBLE ADDRESS (Luquer Street Press, 2004). His poems also appear in grace by Pietro Costa (Luquer Street Press, 2003), in Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (edited by Billy Collins for Random House, 2002), in Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English (edited by the late Agha Shahid Ali for Wesleyan, 2001), and in numerous journals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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