Taken from Smart Fish Don't Bite by John Ketwig (reviewer):
Smart Fish Don't Bite
by W.D. Ehrhart
(Moonstone Press, 2025)
Bill Ehrhart is at it again, but this latest book is different. It's playful, irreverent, interesting, and fun to read. As always, Ehrhart's writing is crisp and clear, but this time he is clearly bothered by approaching 80 years old, being a cancer survivor, and being retired. A lot of Vietnam veterans will relate to those feelings! He starts the book with a Foreword, stating, "I have been increasingly able and inclined to have some fun with my writing." A few paragraphs later, he writes that he is not "inclined to worry much about how these more or less end-of-life poems will be received." He needn't worry.... Read More
