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Winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award

"Ben Doyle's stunning sequence of poems revisits the story of exile and return through an astonishingly supple array of formal techniques. Dark night, descent, underworld encounters with forbears, and frightful recognition scenes bring us to that grail of all journeys: the resurfacing, the incandescent Lazarus-like recovery of surface. In a voice running on the bright engine of the moment--of this moment, in fact--full of its high-octane--he manages, nonetheless, to arrive at what is most true, and terrifying, about surface: its momentous naturalness, the thinness of the skin of self, the unnerving casualness of individuality, the tragic hum by which human singularity creates--and speeds past--itself. He has little time for epiphany. He sees what is left in its wake." --Jorie Graham

Louisiana State Univ. Press, Hardcover, 80 pages.