Driving Home

Ezra Pound famously said: "What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross" (Canto LXXXI). There is no dross to be found in Driving Home, because Jim Gustafson has loved well and his poems remain as the written record of that love. They tell us home truths, "almost everything / there is to tell," about what should matter most to all of us, the ties that bind us together. The more of yourself you put at risk reading Gustafson's poems, the greater your reward will be. They are worth far more than your time.
William Slaughter
Author, Untold Stories and The Politics of My Heart
Editor, Mudlark: An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics