Poetry. "In their clarity, wit, and human scale, Richard Wilmarth's poems are a tonic and restorative for fellow humans struggling through this accelerating era's howling gales of change. Artful and indigenous (in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's 'American idiom'), they bear witness to an acute ear and discriminating eye, and will continue to do so as epigrammatic records of a young poet's life in late twentieth century North America. Light and dark, wistful and humorous, these VOICES IN THE ROOM are a pleasure to hear."—Anselm Hollo