Take five minutes and explain your adoration of this book to me.

ok, Billings, the short answer is: I love this book because it's smart and musical and devastating. Galvin uses the instability / ambiguity of language as a means to comprehend a loss that underlies the collection--loss paradoxically holding the poems together, and using that tension to amplify Galvin's grief and anger in the poems. These are sensual, physical poems sharpened by rhythm, rhyme, sound-play, and the natural world both embodied & estranged. Plus, Galvin has a ranch. And that's hot.

You had me at "ranch."