“Confront personal losses as well as the numerous harbingers of environmental collapse, from birds to beavers to beetles along Red River or beside Lake Marie, eddies and currents evoking social, economic, and political conflicts beyond the trails hiked in many of these poems.”—James Scruton, author of The Rules When Godot Arrived uses eighty free-verse sonnets to explore the intersections of family, environment, politics, and the human condition, balancing contemplative reflection with dark humor and lyrical precision in a world of uncertainty. JimTilley's latest poetry collection, When Godot Arrived, eighty-onefree-verse sonnets, continues the explorations from the set of new poems in hisprevious book, Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe. As in thatprevious book, he draws on his experience as a poet and mathematician to fix alens on the current raw state of the country and the world and on interpersonalrelationships. At times, his mood is merely contemplative, especially in histestaments to family, but as he delves relentlessly into matters political,ecological, and environmental, that mood turns darker, even ominous, infusedoccasionally with humor to present a more optimistic outlook. Together with Ripplesin the Fabric of the Universe, When Godot Arrived is a mostexpansive read.
