Wilderness/Just Bounce

`Wilderness' is haunted by the `60s cult-singer Jim Morrison. The poems are about American outlaws and outsiders. They start with Morrison, and Morrison is never far away, like Jekyll's Mr. Hyde. `Just Bounce' is the other side of Wells: his religious impulse, his animal nature, his delight in riot and ceremony, his obsession with birds, death, and dereliction. ""Densely packed...a powerful and disturbing work"" - New Welsh Review.