A Little Smoke

Reading Bill Gainer is like finding a note full of familiar sounding tales left on a barstool. The story is there - change the names, and it could be yours.
~ Pat Grizzell, Sacramento Poetry Center

Gainer opens up the body of American life to lay out the guts of our behaviors, the heart of who we are. We become vulnerable observers of our own life. What didn’t seem important to us in living our lives suddenly becomes what shaped us in a crazy world of forgotten truths and morality.
~ Chris Olander, Poetic voice of Northen California