A poem can massage us in the deepest recesses of our lives. It can call us both down into the realm of what is not visible at first glance, and through the sensate world we inhabit. These two directions form a cross, which is the crux of life itself. Dennis Patrick Slattery This volume is a testament to the imagination, and to the possibilities which can be made to exist through fortunate word-arrangements when they are generous enough to come. Craig Deininger