Chris Pusateriis a poet, critic, and librarian. Born in the American Midwest during the year of the Watergate burglary, he is the author of ten books of poetry, including Semblance (Dusie, 2013) and Common Time(Steerage, 2012), which was shortlisted for the Colorado Book Award. His work appears widely in literary periodicals and he serves as senior editor for Something on Paper, a multimedia journal of poetics and literary scholarship.
The writing itself is very very original, which is so important, but perhaps it is simply the poet's poetics that throws me a bit, an interesting use of the language, but too thick/deep/heavy with the abstraction, or sentences and images lack enough cohesion to pull me in.