Soft Water

Author: John Coletti

Publisher: Spiral Editions (2024)

40 pages from one of our best--these poems, as to be expected with Coletti's work, provide a laser scalpel to events and observations personal, impersonal, and absurd, rearranging and collaging altered realities with mystifying, clarifying, and beguiling results. These poems, in their psychedelically lovely and distressing structures, bring a sense of insane comfort. They read comfortingly like discovering an old friend hanging out in the garage at a house party, while the music and laughter continues on with its ripple just a sheet of drywall away. I don't know, Schuyler on ketamine--sounds crass, but give it a go. In time you will understand these uncommon crystals as more real than real experience.