Free Verse Editions, Edited by Jon Thompson | While the poems in this alert collection rarely depend on specific geography, there is a strong sense of somewhere here. These poems catch the mind in the process of thinking and plot the subtle constellations that arise from the intersection between the actual and the imaginary. Shades and tones and moods are evoked, as we might find in the paintings many of these poems reference. And yet, there are quiet echoes of our real world of human endeavor to provide a sense that somethings out-of-whack as well as the sense theres something vital to hope for. This is a deeply satisfying book. Maurice Manning