Prime Time

Brand new paperback, first edition, first printing. Binding straight, pages clean and unmarked. Signed by the author of the title page. 140 pages. Prime Time combines autobiography, travel, social commentary, and philosophical speculation in ways that capture the author's distinctive sensibility, his wry and ironic take on the incongruities of life in America that blends laugh-out-loud comic riffs and deep meditations on the tragic aspects of existence. Beginning as a poet in the 1960s, with a long interlude as a novelist, historian, and literary critic, a decade ago William Heath returned to his first love and the results are four remarkable poetry books. Of his early poems James Wright said: "William Heath is in my opinion one of the most brilliantly accomplished and gifted young poets to appear in the United States in quite some time. I am especially moved by the delicacy and precision of the language, which indicates a distinguished intelligence, and by the purity and depth of feeling in his poems." The carefully crafted poems in Prime Time display the author at his mature best. John Stephenson called the book "a real pleasure, full of engaging poems on a wide variety of subjects, drawing on the poet's wide travels, life experiences, and keen insight," while David Salner found it "the most entertaining poetry collection I've read in a very, very long time, offering a panoramic view of human foibles, our morals and manners. The ordinary is recast with wit and precision, providing a brilliant commentary on our strange circus of a world.".