The Porch is a Journey Different from the House

Poetry. "How do we read when everything around us needs to be read, history, heredity, our home on earth? 'By rewriting language' is theanswer suggested by this marvelously agile, rangy first collection"--ColeSwensen. "Undercutting almost every linear and confined 'map' of thinking and feeling, but also providing a new compass for us to use, these poems take us through a 'galaxy of trailer-park geraniums' to confront personal and metaphysical issues in a totally unique way"--Richard Jackson