The Radium Watch Dial Painters (Paperback)
Review
The Radium Watch Dial Painters is a book of sheer power and range, poems that burn in brilliant flashes and with searing luminescence. There are great stories in here, flurries of fresh images and graceful turns of music and wit. Above all, you find Dan Butterworth s pitch-perfect gift for language, his acrobatic intelligence, his fierce decency. I loved this book. –Jess Walter, author of The Zero & Citizen VinceWhether meditating on the grim facts surrounding the title poem (those women dabbing radioactive brushes on tongues to sharpen bristles so that rapidly passing hours glow in the dark), or considering the fossil and figurative fueling of our rage to get down the road toward the dying of our lives, or finding sola
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