John Hilton

Narrator as Witness John Hilton

This is a book of eleven poems that tell stories. They vary from five to over eighty pages in length and they cover a lot of ground and they typically cover it with the direct language of speech. Within there are intimate portraits and there are epic sweeps of future history and there is a lot of moral ambiguity. Each of the tales is told by one or more narrators, but none of them are particularly reliable witnesses. Nothing they say is completely true but how much of it is completely false? Do they know? Can we tell? Does it really matter? Can we pick up truths from lies? Read them and decide for yourself.