A. E. Stallings on Ernest Hilbert’s Last One Out
Last One Out by Ernest Hilbert Measure Press (2019) 102 pages
Ernest Hilbert is not an optimist. In his latest collection, Last One Out, the...
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Ernest Hilbert
I dropped awake and felt it was a dream, / Or seemed to be. I dreamed our prey / Was waiting, just like us, for something too.
Friday Pick: All of You on the Good Earth by Ernest Hilbert
It is refreshing to read poetry that doesn't have to bullshit about what it is. Hilbert can write a sonnet that sounds so natural - and so casually American - that heard aloud, one might not even recognize it for what it is. Or rather, one would recognize it for exactly what it is: great poetry.