Intro -- Contents -- Sizzling Happy Family -- Joy -- My Father Says Grace -- Brother Death, Sister Life -- Ash Wednesday -- Summer Arrhythmias -- Turtle with the World on Its Back -- Compass Rose -- Treble and Treble and Back -- Killing the Minotaur -- Mirage -- Victor Talking Machine Co. -- Sundowning Exit-Seeker -- Name & Address -- Walt Whitman Wrestling Naked with the Young Trees -- After -- For Janis Joplin with Pink Feather Boa in the Clouds at the Edge of the Atlantic Ocean -- Pretty Boy, Rifle Barrels, Carnations -- Setting Sun -- Snapshot -- Andantino Cantabile with Double Rainbow -- Cartwheels -- Amazing Grace Beauty Salon -- Two Poets Meet -- Red Door -- Ground Transport.

Donald Platt is an associate professor of English at Purdue University. His previous collections, Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, & Guns and Cloud Atlas, were published by Purdue University Press as winners of the Verna Emery Poetry Prize. He is a recipient of the "Discovery"/The Nation Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Book Arts' Poetry Chapbook Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including The New Republic, Nation, Paris Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Field, Iowa Review, Southwest Review, and Southern Review, and have been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2000 and 2006. He lives with his wife, the poet Dana Roeser, and their two daughters in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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