"A recurring theme is our inability to fully communicate. It is ironic, yet fully appropriate, to use poetry, the most open-ended literary form, to demonstrate how difficult it can be to say what you mean. It is especially appropriate here, where Willard uses a bare minimum of words to make his points. The line, 'All day I have been trying to say something/ about something without talking/ about the thing itself' from 'Intimate,' could be a definition of poetry." Read the full review of Holding Ground by Bruce Willard, written by C. Murray Thomas for Poetix, here.