Want
poems by A.J. Rathbun
“A.J. Rathbun lives in the Kansas of uncertainty, moved by rain and garlic, nudged by the bulldog of need, embarrassed by the brillinat assurance of a boy on a bicycle seen from the window of a train. He can’t stop seeking “some words that make this never end.” That’s why Rathbun’s lines tend to drive 24 hours without sleeping, even if at the other end there may be only a pool table in Montana.”
“I wouldn’t have believed a poetry this fast and hungry could move so assuredly, so attentively through its emotional traffic, and with such a clear head.”
“These poems radiate with a want that is not the passive “to lack,” but the strenuous verb “to desire.” Want is at once an act and a hope. Such splendid, shining greed for life becomes us all.”
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