If I Didn't Love the River

A profound meditation on love, death, sex, and sickness, “If I Didn't Love the River” speaks directly to the polarizations of our time. Priest's mastery of dark satire, lyric ebullience, erotic verse, and the pithy maxim is as gratifying as it is unique and will appeal to the yearning for poetry, which so often goes unsatisfied in the reading public. No emotional territory-from angst, anger, anguish, and despair to whimsical delight-is off-limits here. Intent on releasing reverberations from the full depths and heights of what it is to be human, this is Robert Priest at his protean best. A profound meditation on love, death, sex, and sickness, “If I Didn't Love the River” speaks directly to the polarizations of our time. Priest's mastery of dark satire, lyric ebullience, erotic verse, and the pithy maxim is as gratifying as it is unique.