<p>From the author: For over twenty-five years I collected random words in a cloth bag.&nbsp;All the poems in this collection were created from those blocks of miscellaneous jottings.&nbsp;I literally created each poem from a mostly nonsense chuck of notes.&nbsp;I call them scraps.</p><p><br></p><p>Former Pulitzer Prize nominee Macioci returns with his own disturbing and enlightening view of the human and American conditions.</p>