Poetry. In WALTZING THE MAP, National Poetry Series winner Standard Schaefer explores the geography of the mind. The journey begins in the attic where light comes in from a hole in the roof and reader is invited to look out as a way of looking into. A place with no future, no past, consciousness in this case is always local. But with a sneeze and a little rain, we arrive on the frontier of a private geology, a seizure of place and language. Aftertaste is the residue of observation. Thoughts are reduced to top soil, dust. And the particular western is revealed a philosphical trajectory traveling on "the alleged force of beautiful things." Whether or not there is a way back from this map, the fuel is certainly and ambiguously enthusiasm. Saddlestapled chapbook.