The thing that gets me about Jason Baldinger \'s work is this: despite being wildly prolific, it\'s these poems.
It\'s not always going to be a pretty picture, but Baldinger - especially here in A Threadbare Universe - draws you in with each first line, creates a little world where we get to look through his eyes while he wields language like it\'s music; syncopated rhythms, the skillful repetition of assonance a.
The poems get better, get tighter, get more honest.
The thing that gets me about Jason Baldinger \'s work is this: despite being wildly prolific, it\'s these poems