With both ardor and sensuality, Darling Vulgarity challenges
us to embrace humanity's imperfections while urging us toward new spiritual
realities. And then, sometimes, the poems are just plain sexy. Or, as Nat Hardy
wrote, "Waters' meditative and confessional forays into the sexual sublime are
both disturbing and artfully passionate." Darling Vulgarity also includes poems
based on Waters' true literary experiences with such notables as Raymond
Carver, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Lowell.