Eric Wertheimer
Cover of Regulus by Eric Wertheimer, featuring J. M. W. Turner's painting Regulus
The second collection

Regulus

Hoot & Waddle / Four Chambers Press · 2018

Named for J. M. W. Turner’s painting Regulus, which gives the book its cover and its presiding light, this collection carries forward the threads of Mylar — fatherhood, language, the nuance of consciousness — and braids them with early Western history, where horizons sprout horizons.

The poem it grows from, “Ideology of Sky,” first appeared in Tupelo Quarterly.

Ask your local bookstore, or inquire directly — small-press editions travel by word of mouth.
“Language as wit: smart, playful, elegiac, and beautifully, absurdly us.”
Jessamyn Smyth, author of The Inugami Mochi
“A song of mystery and compassion.”
Rachel Blum, author of The Doctor of Flowers
“An astronomy of words that is worth the gaze.”
Shawnte Orion, author of The Existentialist Cookbook