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Title: Released
Review: I met Chuck Patterson, the lawyer, while researching a story about a death row inmate that he agreed to represent pro bono, because the man had been a fellow Marine at Khe Sanh.I met Chuck Patterson, the poet, when he slipped me a poem he had written on a battlefield after the death of a friend. I've read a few of Chuck's poems since, but I did not realize how good they are until I read them in the context of this collection. I loaned this chap book to a couple of colleagues who are Vietnam veterans; neither man could read it in the office, choosing instead to take it home where they could read alone.These poems have the feel of something alive, something sired by the poet but entities independent of him. It's as if they lived in a cage in Chuck's chest then broke out; the result is poetry on the prowl, poems that are sleek, dangerous, and beautiful. It is an important work, done well.
