“As its title suggests, many of the poems in Drowning in the Desert concern themselves with the condition of being helpless beyond circumstance. A secret regret…and a motif of the drowned and the unsaved threads through the book like a nagging guilt. The author’s life is presented like a tourist’s pilgrimage in poems that are shaded with displacement – the poet is a sojourner in every place he rests. This collection is a journey that asks to be taken.” – John W Sexton