Poetry. "Perlman's forest of 'consciousness conscious' begins at the edge of the 20th century wasteland and leads us into a wilderness where history moves vertically, straight or fractured, leafy or bare, toward an ever-impossible sky. Take a walk with him in this 'palindrome of pilgrimage utter coincidence found and lost' - he's our new Thoreau/Beston/Muir and he's going to teach us how 'to get out of the world alive'" -Craig Watson.