Green Revolver

"This intensely original collection of poems heralds the debut of an American original. Worthy Evans uses the vernacular is ways we have never seen before. He brings a cinematic intensity to ordinary images; as if he is an alien visiting earth and reporting back in ways that make the ordinary seem extraordinary. Green Revolver is a masterpiece."—Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina Poet Laureate

"After a career of reading the work of several thousand students and several thousand poems from poets great and small, one hopes that each book he picks up will be a discovery of something new. Sometimes that hope is rewarded, as in the case of Green Revolver. Worthy Evans is a new poet, but one with a mature voice. What a pleasure it is to hear our mundane lives rendered enlightening and exciting in such a matter-of-fact tone. In Evans's accurately presented society, we everyday folk flounder into our value as human beings."—Paul Allen, author of Ground Forces

"Green Revolver impressed me with its confidence, its strangeness, its accruing sense of drama and import. . . . This poet is a shape-shifting trickster with the voice of the schmuck in the cubicle next door. He might be our savior. He might be the guy in the black robe holding the scythe. He might be both. . . . Each poem is a little narrative. Sometimes the story is a commonplace, even tedious account, and sometimes it shocks with the absolute strangeness of its familiarity. In each case the same nonjudgmental voice delivers the news—the bad news—that if we're not careful, we will go mad inside our hypernormal lives."—David Baker, poetry editor of the Kenyon Review and author of Never- Ending Bird, from the foreword

Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize