Austin's poetry is intellectually and emotionally intense. He illuminates interactions operating at the deeper, subtler levels of reality in all of our lives, and he does so with a maturity of poetic voice that is mind-boggling to read in one so young. Above all, "There is This," is a beautiful collection of well-crafted verse, at once accessible and meaningful...
"where a child’s sweat beads in a boiling car/
window cracked enough for the devil’s/
breeze and shopping cart wheels..."
