Jubilant Thicket New and Selected Poems

Poet and photographer Jonathan Williams founded the Jargon Society—publishing verse, experimental fiction, photography and visionary folk art—and has championed the underdog, maverick and outsider in the arts for fifty years. His poetry is no less distinctive. Jubilant Thicket teems with the eccentric, strange and boundlessly authentic—neoclassical poems, social satire, musical suites, limericks and lyrics. There is spleen, salt, and delicious sarcasm, as Williams finds inspiration in Mahler and Mojo Nixon, William Blake and whimmy-diddles. Always in knowing command, he serves up an admixture of “found” and vernacular language, invented and archaic forms, jokes, shock, literary allusions, and political disgust. There is nobody quite like Jonathan Williams.