Waiting for an Etcher (Paperback or Softback)

From life along the South Texas border to travels abroad to the vitality of family bonds, Waiting for an Etcher provides a series of memorable images and insights. Chip Dameron's eye for detail and gift of phrasing offer readers the opportunity to enter the world of each poem and experience its landscape.

Chip Dameron's poems reverberate with longing and yearning, "damp with human hope." Dameron traverses the space between reality and illusion, whether a river, a memory, or the path of a bird's flight. His poems dare to enter a twilight lit with final meanings. -Jan Seale, Texas Poet Laureate in 2012.

The poems of this accomplished collection are "etchings" on the slippery glass of both the real and the imagined, glinting epiphanies of the love, loss, and momentary redemption central to our mysterious, ephemeral lives. -Larry D. Thomas, Texas Poet Laureate in 2008.

Waiting for an Etcher . . . shimmers with the golden glow of the magic hour, a series of tight but wide-ranging gems gathered in that borderland between darkness and light. -David Bowles, The McAllen Monitor

It is this attention to "the real story"--the human story, set against which most "travel" poetry becomes so much background scenery--that draws Dameron's work ultimately towards richer explorations of loss and grief. -Dorothy Lawrenson, Texas Books in Review