Cross Country

<p>Cross Country is a collection of poems tracing a journey from Pomona California to Union Station Los Angeles in which the poet picks up a hitchhiker whose name is the same as his long-dead sister. Poems fill the spaces of the journey and the two finally get to Los Angeles.</p><p>Additional poems that stand on their own are included. The poems of the book are serious funny happy and sad—a mix of the elements of the form.</p><p>Cross Country the title refers to the cross-country travel the sport of running called cross-country and the cross itself.</p>