Enter Dark Stranger

William Trowbridge’s stunning first poetry collection is titled Enter Dark Stranger. And enter he does, in almost every poem, in a series of farcical or chilling a Buchenwald guard, the Frog Prince, or the folks at home. Us, perhaps? His weapons are a deep puzzlement of feelings and a wonderful ear. He knows how to divert with jokes while he’s about to “BLAM, BLAM, BLAM!”