Dog Watch Author:Valerie Lawson Poetry. Perfect Bound, 6X9 Paperback. Dog Watch gathers lyrical "clean, spare, risky, quirky, eccentric, surprising poems and narrative poems the author has developed for theatrical performance. Many of the poems draw inspiration from the Cape Cod town of Buzzards Bay, where the author resides. Valerie Lawson's crisp lines often startle us ... more »with their concision-- so effective in, among others, her inimitable nature poems. In Dog Watch we meet a fully arrived poet of passionate intelligence, able to speak forthrightly in resoundingly accurate words.-- X. J. Kennedy, Exploding Gravy: Poems to Make You Laugh (S)o many...stand out with special clarity, for the unexpected views of reality they offer, for their daring use of language, and for the intelligent, sentient human voice behind all of them. -- Rhina Espaillat, Playing At Stillness« less