Contributions by Peter Blair

Precarious Music // Book Review: SUGAR RUN ROAD by Ed Ochester

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Sugar Run Road Poems by Ed Ochester Autumn House Press, 2015 $17.95 In his famous essay, “The American Background,” William Carlos Williams writes that America needs to create a “culture of immediate references.” Such a culture relies on direct, unmediated perception and contact with the American continent itself, free of European preconceptions and the “crazy …