the violent story of an unnamed narrator, the prostitute he is tasked to "find," and Carpenter Wells, a man who has lost his soul and wanders, empty, unable to quench his desire.
Randall Watson is the author of No Evil is Wide, (Madville Publishing 2019), which received the Quarterly West prize in the novella, The Geometry of Wishes (Texas Review Press), a finalist in the Juniper and Tampa Review Poetry Prizes, The Sleep Accusations, which received the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize at Eastern Washington University, (currently available through Carnegie Mellon University Press), and Las Delaciones del Sueño, translated by Antonio Saborit with an Introduction by Adam Zagajewski, published in a bi-lingual edition by the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico.