Poetry. "This poem in over a score of journeys derives its form from the ribbon of highway, the sense of onwardness, the vehicular throb and subdued grindings, groanings, gasp of air brakes, familiar to anyone who's ever ridden long-distance buses—and from the watching, reflective poet's mind that is carried along within that movement, itself still, or unfolding at a different pace. Short lines evoke the snake of a road, dashes and interrupting ellipses mimic the slowings down, the big stops at intersections on digressions into and out of intermediate towns and terminals; but the work is meditative rather than descriptive, and the passing scene (or dark flow of night) is scanned not in superficial travelogue but for its inner correspondences. The result is a peculiarly American, interurban, late twentieth century suite of poems which at the same time admits the reader to a pensive, lyrical solitude-within multitude."—Denise Levertov

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