In Taking our love offline, Chuck Wanager wields a scalpel to slice and dice and a sledgehammer to bludgeon a poem into shape with equal skill. His writing is sharp, incisive, thoughtful, twisting and twisted. Chuck pays attention to details to create poetry that provokes readers to deep thought and feeling. The poems surprise and challenge readers; they are absorbing, and, yes, sometimes skewed because Chuck often sees the world from the other side of the looking glass. --Dr. Eleanor Wolfe Hoomes, Author of DRIVING WITH MY BLINKER ON Chuck Wanager's poetry collection Taking our love offline will make the reader see the world in a new way. His poetry is edgy and sometimes shocking in its approach to its subject matter. From poems about personal experiences to poems about world events, Chuck grabs the reader's attention. His vivid images and use of the vernacular provide a vision and sometimes a re-vision of contemporary issues. Like the Beat Poets of the 50's, Chuck Wanager relies on concrete language and images to make the reader take note of the world made fresh. --Dr. Robert C. Covel, Author of STRING THEORY and WIND SONG