Recommended Reading: The Poetry of Jason Roush

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Superbly crafted with impeccable phrasing and clear imagery, Jason Roush’s poetry proves that he is one of the best new poets in his field. His three books of poetry, Crosstown, After Hours and Breezeway show a mastery of his art. Both personal and far-reaching, these works are moving and evocative.


John Skoyles, the author of The Situation, had this to say of Crosstown:

Jason Roush has a brilliant command of the line and an almost pointillist way of combining exact, exquisite phrases into sweeping vistas. At once tender and humane, the poems in Crosstown display a rare intelligence and character. The collection is not only well-written, but well-told—the voice is sly and warm, and the whole book is good company.

And, Richard McCann, author of Mother of Sorrows, says the following of Breezeway:

In these spare and lyrical poems, Jason Roush writes, like the great Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, about the ordinary, passing moments of our lives, which are ‘suspended / over the swift water of years // that cannot last or happen again.’ These poems—at once so wry and conversational, so ardent and precise and unafraid of feeling—remind us in their beauty that we are all living in the ‘breezeway of time,’ in that long, open passage between all that seems lost and all that still remains.

I heartily recommend these sparkling collections of poetry. Many thanks to Jason for taking us one step further into our own Belle Époque.