Poetry. "HOME AND VARIATIONS is an impressive first book of poetry and an important one. There are poems here that examine the curious life of European aesthetics in American soil and others that play at received texts with grace and insight. For Archambeau, clearly, poetry is an activity involving speculation, investigation and wit, a space where history, text, high culture, myth and the contemporary popular flotsam can be seen together, played and played at" - Michael Anania. Robert Archambeau has taught at Notre Dame and Lund University (Sweden) and currently teaches at Lake Forest. He is the editor of the international poetry review Samizdat.