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Jim Tilley earned a doctorate in physics from Harvard and worked on Wall Street for twenty years. His poetry collections include In Confidence (2011) and Cruising at Sixty to Seventy (2014), both from Red Hen Press. His short memoir, The Elegant Solution, has appeared as a Ploughshares Solo e-book, an audiobook through Audible.com, and in a Ploughshares print anthology. His poetry has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Review, Poetry Daily and on the PBS News Hour’s art blog, among others, and has won Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Poetry, as well as been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes.
Reading this book is like returning to those sometimes fraught but mostly carefree days of summer camp or, for the uninitiated among us, like taking our blindfolds off and discovering that vivid world for the first time. Tilley s poems are refreshingly direct, maybe because, as he says in J-Stroke and Sweep, You can t see the metaphor when you re a Camper. He sees the metaphors now but doesn t bear down on them too hard, and the lessons of the title never seem forced. Jim Tilley earns a 3rd feather for this third book. Jeffrey Harrison
