This is fiction writer Jom Dodge's first collection of poems and short prose.

"This diverse, savvy, passionate selection of poems by novelist Jim Dodge contains lyric epigrams that go straight to the non-dualist bedrock, backwoods workers' dharma-combat humour, loving poems for wife and son, several high-spirited and near-transcendent poems of truth, sex and insight, some profound comments on dogs and salmon, a few vivid and pithy little prose pieces, and much else that defies description. His wide-ranging work is refined and accomplished with a sly sort of off-handedness. Poetry should be a pleasure, and Jim Dodge's work is just that: anyone who picks up this book has a treat in store."
Gary Snyder