In the Evening of No Warning (New Issues Poetry & Prose) (Paperback)

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"...he understands passion for what it is, polymorphous, heartstrong and headdriven...to be ridden and ridden out and ridden again." -- William Olsen

"Clark is a deeply thoughtful poet whose narrative gift is always enhanced by a searching and restless consciousness" -- Sandra M. Gilbert

"Many of these poems are altogether sweet and perfect. This is a wonderful book." -- Norman Dubie

"What Clark allows us to see is how vulnerable we are to the unpredictable." -- Jacqueline Marcus

Product Description

Kevin Clark's In the Evening of No Warning charts the late twentieth century life of a man who swings back and forth between the elegiac lyric and the urgent rant. Divided into three distinct sections, the book considers the ecstasies and exigencies of romantic love, an homogenizing American culture, and secular mortality.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 79 pages
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930974132
• ISBN-13: 978-1930974135
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,654,165 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contemporary poetry of depth and originality, April 2, 2002

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It would be hard to find a recent book of poetry in which language serves subject as
brilliantly as in Kevin Clark's In the Evening of No Warning. These hard-won poems go deep
and range far. What first dazzles by sheer inventiveness and originality soon captivates a reader
by force of the thought the language is called upon to bear. Terms of daily life- the passage of
time, parenthood, travel, sexuality- dramatically frame the narratives. The wit and daring of
"One of Us," the poignancy of the title poem and of "Margaret's Face," the scope of "Eros in
Middle Age," "The Price," "The End," have an intensity that compels a reader's impassioned
engagement. This book's publication is cause for rejoicing.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overtaken In the Evening of No Warning, July 20, 2002

By	A Reader (San Antonio, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

Haunting, lyrical, bittersweet, at times mesmerizing, Kevin Clark's first collection of poems causes us to know how long we have waited for it, and to know that it won't be soon enough before we can have his second. The poems in IN THE EVENING OF NO WARNING are filled with wise sorrow and humor about relationships, families, memory, about love and loss. There is not a trivial moment here; like twilight, the book lingers with us long after we have shut the doors of its covers and come back to the lights of our own lives, which Clark, in musical yet colloquial and precise language, so tenderly illuminates.

5.0 out of 5 stars "nothing has changed or is the same", May 20, 2006

By	Megan Souza "Meg" (San Luis Obispo) - See all my reviews

You can hear him read a few poem on [...] Listen and buy this book.

These poems about time, circularity, generation, and parallel worlds are always, each of themselves, circular and complete. Of his dead father he says, "in one year I will be his senior" What one reader here called "self absorbed" I call genuineness because all of the personal only serves to make the universal revelations of his poems honest and tenable. He's unassumingly profound. Which of course makes us all think we can be poets.