A Rain Ancestral

doi:doi:10.21428/9b43cd98.4a643ac1

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A Rain Ancestral

Harold Whit Williams

Poems written from the inside-out and the outside-in of the Old Country. An old country of not only quiet County Down pubs and gritty Belfast streets but also of childhood singsongs and snippets of last night's office dream. Fiddles and flutes, pipes and pints, liquor and loose-lipped language. Bone-and-blood ballads in formal and free verse.

About the Author

Harold Whit Williams is a prize-winning poet and longtime guitarist for the indie rock band Cotton Mather. He is the recipient of the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, and the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, Williams lives in Austin, Texas where he records lo-fi music as Daily Worker. As a music cataloger, he works on the KUT collection for the University of Texas Libraries. A Rain Ancestral is his sixth book of poetry.