Poetry. "IN THE ROOM confronts the items of a room with thirty three eight-line 'poems-as-things.' The book revolves around the relationship between what is said and what is meant, what is done and what is created, and what creates what; it questions the 'worlds surrounding such 'things' and the language used to interrogate the entirety of the room. The story behind each thing is revealed only upon interrogation, a tip-toe through the living room and out the door, an attempt to escape the very room the poems propose to examine. And the poems' musicality enables the nearly immediate disappearance of sense. We are left with an aftereffect, during which we search for the moment just past"-Andrew Felsinger, Vert. Saddlestapled chapbook.