Crash's Law

Through myth dream and sensual detail the poems in this remarkable first collection portray a hectic world plagued by a desire for psychic coherence. The book begins and ends in extremity: the opening poem Infernal evokes the searing realm of an actual and metaphoric Miami while the final poem New Heaven New Earth alludes to seeking a path through dense woods amid a blinding obliterating blizzard. In their longing to define a set of terms for spiritual survival these essentially lyric poems merge an evocation of contemporary consciousness with the oldest conventions of cry and song.