Books by Charles Watts

Robert Louis Stevenson, Christy Mathewson, and Adelaide Crapsey hook up in a tuberculosis Cure Cottage in the Bardo. A family deals with its patriarch's dementia. An aging Doyen gets revenge on people from her past. A couple deals with the death of a beloved dog. An addict seeks help from his best friend and an old lover. Funny, poignant, haunting, and perceptive, these one-act plays deal with contemporary issues and the way people handle them. They are poetic, literary, and accessible and are both easily read and simply staged. Be prepared to be challenged and amused!

These poems speak in many voices on many things--visionary, introspective, often given flights of language and imagination and metaphor that root themselves in the ordinary and commonplace only then to take the reader, suddenly and as if by magic, to some extraordinary place. Charles Watts thinks and writes with clarity and wit, whether about personal relationships, deer in the garden, or eternity, and his darkness never dims his light and his light never denies the dark. -Bruce Rowe (author: Poems of the Night and Day)