Poetry. "The shifting form, the use of negative space, stalled and interrupted cadence and even the syncopated release of irony work in themselves to create meaning along with, in opposition to and simultaneously with the abstracted center. Each section offers this startling relationship and the sections together repeat this for the whole. ...Every poem here is a riddle of sorts, but there is no joke. ...There is an illusion of fragmentation and also of cohesion and illusion becomes just that. These poems cannot be reduced to their content, but neither can content be in any way understood as mere device. This work is aching to get into the world and mean things. It will"-Percival Everett.