Poetry. Li-young Lee says of this book: "Wow! Lovely. Stark. Rich. Strange. I'd say these poems spy out the mind's quickest turns and slights and falls." These succinct, curious, and crisp poems thoughtfully crafted by Mr. Ellis find a direct connection to the imagistic modalities of the interior life as they sway effortlessly from subject to subject. The relaxed, hypnotic quality he achieves provides a welcome escape from the linear life into the confident arms of the subjective world.

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Mr. Ellis has spent a lifetime perfecting the techniques he now uses to pathway into the interior consciousness and allow it full access to his poems. As a result he produces a series of mysteriously interconnected images which have the feel of arriving as if from no single source. His poems have appeared in Cider Press Review, Tundra, VOLT, The Bitter Oleander, American Writing, among others. He was a finalist for the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award for the most imaginative poem of 1998.