<p><strong>What a bounty to have Jamey Jones' first seven chapbooks with original covers and illustrations collected together in one volume! Here is a poet's passage of song where an opera of living comes at us full-throated as it unfolds. In this gulf coast panhandle mid America reality dreamscapes wash over us flies think numbers blow backwards fish swim in a freeway ravine and Anselm Hollo famously notes Poetry can be so many more things than what people mostly believe it is. </strong></p><p></p><p></p>