<p><em>Permanent Smoke</em> Darrell Epp's fifth collection uses poetry as a scalpel to dissect our present moment in all its terrors and delights.</p><p><br></p><p>Gravity and grace duel to the death in a tinkertoy universe. Downsized superheroes moonlight as Uber drivers. There's a light in the black like a knock-knock joke in the palliative care ward and a love beyond any vocabulary.</p>