Three-Legged Dog

the long version

Poetry. “When Don Caswell says ‘there is nothing to say,’ that is just the beginning, the place where you ‘have only the word / cormorant / plucked from a dictionary / and pinned to this page.’ The poems of <em>Three-Legged Dog</em> begin like a web: ‘a leap / into nothing, with only the hope / of a lucky wind.’ They end in hard-won insight. Like the three-legged dog of its title, this book is toughly resilient. It has everything to say” (Judith Kitchen).