WILLIAM MONTGOMERY by Quincy R. Lehr

But still, a sneer could not have hurt me more
Than her clear laugh that sang of expectations
So long forgotten from a distant day
When youth still spread before me, and the poor
And pitiful attempts at explanations
Still lay in ambush, only years away.

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Quincy R. Lehr's poetry has been described by MICHAEL O'LOUGHLIN as "intellectually rigorous and displaying a serious engagement with poetic form", by JOHN W. SEXTON as "a wonderfully strong and powerful collection", LIAM AUNGIER has described Quincy as "one of the finest poets I have had the pleasure of knowing", and FIONA SAMPSON declared in the Irish Times, "These long, busy poems demonstrate much energy and narrative talent."

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Staple Bound Chapbook
19 pages
Originally published by Modern Metrics Press