Poetry. Jonathan Aaron's most recent collection, JOURNEY TO THE LOST CITY moves breezily between recollection and observation in poems of tightly crafted narratives, always attuned to the welter of the world that spawns them and the people who inhabit it. "Certain stories live in the air like ancestral spirits/ or weather phenomena. You acquire them/ from people..."-from JOURNEY TO THE LOST CITY. "Aaron keeps his cool as he picks his way among the rubble like his dadaist hero Kurt Schwitters, making new shapes from shattered old ones. Elegant and quietly dangerous, Jonathan Aaron is our best cicerone to a world whose public madness makes the private ones seem sane"--Rosanna Warren.