Dear Heart, by Harold Whit Williams

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

You hold in your hands, dear heart, a strange little book. A bizarre batch of obsessive-compulsive, paranoid and possessive poem-letters addressed simply to–“Lover.” This latest micro-collection of misanthropic missives from the acclaimed poet and power pop guitar hero Harold Whit Williams lovingly disturbs in tight crafted couplets dotted with oddball imagery and internal rhymes.  

Consisting of dream analyses, wishful thinking, and the always popular “what could have been,” Dear Heart delves deep into the selfishness and hurt occurring in all relationships, while celebrating those fleeting tender touching moments that are made all that much sweeter as our time ticks away.

Harold Whit Williams is a prize-winning poet, longtime guitarist for indie rock band Cotton Mather, and the author of nine books of poetry and one book of short stories. He is also the recipient of the 2020 FutureCycle Press Poetry Book Prize, the 2014 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, as well as multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Williams lives in Austin, Texas, where he is the Head of Metadata Services at UT Libraries, all the while writing, recording, and performing his solo music under the moniker Daily Worker.