Poetry. Albon's writing is dense and elegant, a kaleidoscope of cues from American culture and folklore. He is the author of EMPIRE LIFE and THOUSANDS COUNT OUT LOUD; his work has appeared in HAMBONE, NEW AMERICAN WRITING, O ANTHOLOGY 4 and other magazines, all available from SPD; his essay "The Paradise of Meaning" was the George Oppen Memorial Lecture for 2002. "Hypnotic, suggestive, transient and trance-like, there is an enduring narrative here that harks back to some distant past and hovers over a present already pitched too far into the future for us to grap: obstinate, obdurate, but attainable in the telling of it"--Ammiel Alcalay.