Addicts & Basements

Drawing its energy from society's underbelly--the dim corner booths of bars, the stalls of public bathrooms, the thickets of unkempt parks--Vaughan's book is part prose poem, part fractured sonnet, part Whitmanian love-cry.- Dorianne LauxRobert Vaughan's poems are peopled with painfully human characters, depicted with unnerving authenticity and irreverent compassion. - Ellen Bass