Poetry. OF KINGDOMS & KANGAROO represents a deep dialogue in poetry carried on through the medium of two concise books, A Torrent of Hard Words by Nicolas A. Destino, and Stir by James Thomas Stevens. Dual conceptions, observations and expressions of the often terrifying results when cultures clash. The energy and elegance of this suite of poems, whose echoed element is love, provide eloquent evidence of the continuing conflict between the familiar and the new.