Poetry. Russell Salamon returns to Cleveland, Ohio, the land of his former friends d.a.levy and Grace Butcher to find a new spiritual connection. Famous for his Descent into Cleveland, he has given us here an ASCENT FROM CLEVELAND in poems and prose images that are revealing and magical. "Russell Salamon returned to Cleveland in the summer of 2007. Did you know that the city knew he was back? On a warm August night in Tremont, while he read, birds flew overhead, the ivy grew up the walls around him. You could tell he was from the heart; you could feel the poems this book would become" -Allen Frost. "Russell Salamon...your poetic images float above the earth without touching; you are a poet from the marrow out"--Ray Bradbury.