<p>Mad fury all around-somehow the right words about life make it easier to get on with it. These poems do exactly that catching us out in the most adroit surprising ways: by sheer skill self-aware intellect a mordant wit abundant heart a gift for metaphor so exact it produces combustible insights of complex truth. These poems brilliantly enact our contradictory nature its poles and they compel us to look within.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-Eleanor Wilner</p>