Poetry. "Martin Willitts Jr's SECRETS NO ONE MUST TALK ABOUT is likea small verbal portrait of a Mojave soul-scape. Infused withthe same sweet but rugged solemnity as writers like Lorca andVallejo (whose ghosts flicker in the margins), SECRETS NO ONE MUST TALK ABOUT reflects a dangerous frontier-town ethos that isalive with curious and unmentionable secrets, the hidden litanyof daily griefs, that is the poet's private curse and blessing todredge cautiously into the light. A strange and marvelous work,soft as wetted sand, hard as a sun-bleached stone."—Seth Jani

Author City: SYRACUSE, NY USA

Martin Willitts Jr. is currently a Senior Librarian in upstate New York. He has been nominated for five Pushcart awards and two Best Of The Net awards. His print chapbooks include Falling in and out of Love (Pudding House Publications, 2005), Lowering Nets of Light (Pudding House Publications, 2007), The Garden of French Horns (Pudding House Publications, 2008), Baskets of Tomorrow (Flutter Press, 2009), The Girl Who Sang Forth Horses (Pudding House Publications, 2010), Van Gogh's Sunflowers for Cezanne (Finishing Line Press, 2010), and SECRETS NO ONE MUST TALK ABOUT (Dos Madres Press, 2011). He has the online chapbooks Farewell—the journey now begins, News from the Front, and Words&Paper. His two full-length books are The Secret Language of the Universe (March Street Press, 2006) and The Hummingbird (March Street Press, 2009).