Features poems that attempt a new twist on the lyric, bringing an accessible post-postmodern awareness to the traditional concerns of sound, line, and form. In this book, poems and sequences amplify each other and honor the sensuous "sound body" of the lyric, while also opening spaces for the reader's memory, desire, empathy, and imagination.

These poems attempt a new twist on the lyric, bringing an accessible post-postmodern awareness to the traditional concerns of sound, line, and form. Many poems and sequences amplify each other and honor the sensuous "sound body" (sometimes called phontotext) of the lyric, while also appealing to eye and mind, opening spaces for the reader's memory, desire, empathy, and imagination.