I have fewer passages to quote with this collection because many of these poems' power comes from the way they operate as a whole; nonetheless, of course I found some to give you a flavour of this fresh work: ...I can't recall when anticipation became the substitute for hope. * I imagine digging a series of small holes, burying poems in Ziploc baggies. I imagine them as baby teeth knocked from the present's mouth. from 'Ars Poetica for the Future' Because what's more American