Poetry. "Working his way through the rough stuff of word/sound magic--front nine, back nine, nineteenth hole and dance floor--Tills has talleyed 'almost all sublime numbers' in this book of life on the greens, the poem that Ben, Arnold, Jack, and Tiger never knew they'd been missing--'Ah, just tap on it, Mate'"--Stephen Ratcliffe.

Author City: PALMYRA, NY USA

Steve Tills lives in Palmyra, New York, with his wife Sandra and their golden retriever Maxwell Sixberry. He plays golf regularly (albeit, in western New York, "seasonally"). He plays particularly at Winged Pheasant Golf Course, five miles from his home, frequently with his father, his brother, his nephew, his brother-in-law, and others he's known since he first swung a club there when he was eleven, forty years ago. RUGH STUFF is Steve's first book of poetry written in a foreign language, the jargon of golf. It is, as others have often said about Esalen founder Michael Murphy's Golf in the Kingdom, "about neither Golf nor Metaphysics, really." It doesn't aspire to be "about Poetry," either, regardless that that is a subject matter much foregrounded and most fashionable in many avant po books and a lot of Steve's own most tedious poming over the years.

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Gerald Schwartz @ Jacket
Sarah Sarai @ My 3,000 Loving Arms
Jim McCrary @ Galatea Resurrection