"I adore [Caples's] prescription to read widely and even perversely; and his breezy style is engaging."?Don Share"Caples is part of a younger generation of writers reinvigorating contemporary poetry b
Poetry. Question: When is a poet's first book a reader? Answer: When you're Garrett Caples, whose poetic persona is often-perverse, decidedly-decisive, randomly-rule-breaking and impoetically-casual.
"Thom Gunn, Barbara Guest, Robert Creeley, Philip Lamantia, all ghosts now, are invoked without sentiment and with plenty of wry humor." Kevin Killian,Attention SpanA power ballad was a hair