On Shelves January 2010!
from Small Press Reviews
“…the format allows Waterfield to create a pitch-perfect reproduction of the fragmentary nature of memory–the book’s form is perfectly suited to its content. Gritty, desperate, passionate, and heartfelt, Bartab is a must-read for the poet in all of us…” -- August 9, 2009

Reviewed at Philadelphia Stories

"Cesca Janece Waterfield writes the blues in Bartab: An Afterhours Ballad. Reading her book is like listening to a great radio station in the middle of the night when you can't sleep - you know someone is singing for you and you are singing with her. ...pays witness to good love and bad love and what we mistake for love." -- Denise Duhamel, author of Kinky (Orchises Press) and Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press)

"With 'fricatives of threat' and 'the musk of words,' Waterfield makes intellectual and animal love to the sounds of language and explores its beautiful failure. If I close my eyes after reading, I see great cinema, and the soundtrack is the 'thuck' of tires on the Eastern Shore and 'Dusk shushing the day'. Like a postmodern New Testament, this ballad is full of parables and the flesh of language, stretched and taut over a body of lyric."-- Chad Faries, Savannah state University, author of The Border Will Be Soon (Emergency Press) and a forthcoming title from Vulgar Marsala Press