Poetry. These are unforgettable poems by a dazzling new poet who gives us just what his title promises: sustenance -Ronald Wallace. The poems in SUSTENANCE are plain-spoken observations, bluntly honest, yet incisive enough to punch holes in the fabric of the everyday: Every book a copy, this blue sky's a constant/ fabrication, and the sheet of glass I watch/ for slip-ups through, for holes in the story/ to emerge... With wit and restraint, the author explores the lofty heights and dark corners of the America he knows so well. Anstett lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Aaron Anstett's collection Sustenance was the finalist for the 1998 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. His second collection, No Accident, was selected by Philip Levine for the 2004 Backwaters Press Prize and won the 2006 Nebraska Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. A new collection, Each Place the Body's, was published in 2007 by Ghost Road Press. His poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, The Ohio Review, Poetry Daily, River City, and Shenandoah among many other journals, and he has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. Anstett has run an open-mike series for a number of years and often organizes readings. Recently he has taught Creative Writing at the University of Colorado-Pueblo. He lives in Southern Colorado with his children.