![](\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/miller\/swoop.jpg\")
Joint Publication with Fell Swoop<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not so often there is a poet so simply a pleasure and so secure in what he has to offer. Martin knows what he\u2019s doing and has that dependable virtue.<\/p>\n
\u2014Robert Creeley on Richard Martin<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Richard Martin\u2019s\u00a0Under the Sky of No Complaint<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0takes the reader on a metaphysical journey where absurdity and what we\u2019ve come to accept as reality collide, and a remarkably original and transformative language emerges. This is poetry that is meditative, acutely observant, and unsettling.\u00a0 \u201cI have a message to someone somewhere\u201d Martin assures us in the book\u2019s title poem.\u00a0 Richard Martin is exactly a poet we need in these strange times.<\/p>\n -W.E. Butts, New Hampshire Poet Laureate <\/p>\n Under the Sky of No Complaint<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is \u2013 as most of Richard Martin\u2019s work \u2013 multi-dimensional. The poems in this new collection explode with humor, energy and originality. In the poem, \u201cTalking Heads on Mute,\u201d he writes: \u201cMedia is a gall bladder attack\/And after the installation of deliberate falsehoods\/Will fully recover.\u201d Martin\u2019s creative intelligence and vision, complex in revelation, make\u00a0Under the Sky of No Complaint<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0an essential read.<\/p>\n -Bill Kemmett <\/p>\n Richard Martin\u2019s\u00a0Under the Sky of No Complaint<\/em><\/strong>, a compilation of recent chapbooks and new work, provides the opportunity for uninitiated readers of his work to punch narrative\u2019s heavy bag in the gut. Through imagery, phrasing, and juxtaposition, Martin works the page like a carpenter without a hammer, a taxi driving De Niro whose meter has transmogrified into an interstellar abacus. Prepare to count your change! Metaphysics is the coin of Martin\u2019s poetry.<\/p>\n -J.V. Miller <\/p>\n
\nAuthor of\u00a0Cathedral of Nervous Horses<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAuthor of\u00a0Black Oil<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAuthor of\u00a0What Else Do You Want?<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n