Garbage! Is the point where nature and history become interchangeable terms. This is Dan Bouchard's great insight, articulated in different ways in all his books. Here, more deeply than elsewhere, he considers the implications of that insight for users of language. Overall, his prognosis is good: whether dumpster diving in tradition, or singing like birds above the filthy scraps of civilization, his poets do endure, like 'pebbles stuck between rubber grooves / of insulated shoes' ('Id Est').

An excellent book to pull up with next to an open window, with the sounds of urban conversation, an occasional bird whistle, car horn, truck, car, filtering through...

Just awesome.