There Is This

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..."