"Chris Green's RUSHLIGHT is a powerful new book of poems. Rushlights were made from rushes growing in marshy ground by old-time working people as substitutes for candles, to push against the darkness of the night. For me, Chris' poems light the world in a similar way. I see better in my own dark through these brilliant poems, for which I thank this very necessary writer." - Gurney Norman, Kentucky Poet Laureate and author of Kinfolks
"RUSHLIGHT is as generous and sensuous as Whitman, but it's more grounded in rough domesticities: dank basements, littered front yards, and cat-rich bedrooms of the Midwest and Appalachia. Green uses literal sumps and sumptuous language to dredge lost stories from floods of time and despair; as he puts it, "orgetter, plumb the dark corner." A poet equally at home singing about political canvassing and climbing grain silos, Green is a courage-teacher. We need more like him." -Philip Metres, author of To See the Earth
"RUSHLIGHT is as generous and sensuous as Whitman, but it's more grounded in rough domesticities: dank basements, littered front yards, and cat-rich bedrooms of the Midwest and Appalachia. Green uses literal sumps and sumptuous language to dredge lost stories from floods of time and despair; as he puts it, "orgetter, plumb the dark corner." A poet equally at home singing about political canvassing and climbing grain silos, Green is a courage-teacher. We need more like him." -Philip Metres, author of To See the Earth
