In the Time of Rat
by Norman Lock

Description

A harrowing narrative poem of the Thirty Years’ War.  In a departure from prose, Lock gives us poetry “as muscular as Skelton’s but with the wit, precision, and grace of bonsai.  Not since Ted Hughes’ Crow have we encountered [in Nicolaas Jansen, soldier, deserter, poet] a figure with this much disturbing gravity and charisma.”