Seth Wieck is a master of capturing place and the voice and landscape of the Texas panhandle. "Ulysses Arrives in Amarillo" alone is worth the price of the book. His control and depth are matched by very few poets working today.
Seth Wieck finds depth, layers of time and of experience, in a sparse landscape. The poems are contemplative and engaging, full of vivid images and thoughtful observations. Wieck is formally adept, using a variety of traditional and nonce forms. This book will appeal especially to lovers of formalist poetry and to localists. “Ulysses Arrives in Amarillo” is an imaginative and entertaining collision of myth, scripture, and Texas landscape. The collection is highly literature (learned, even) but also colloquial and down to earth. Frost would approve, if he wasn’t always such a jealous S.O.B.