"In this beautiful book, Looney paints the slow dance of a human soul
across the infinitely flat landscape of the Midwest, where dreams are
informed by suffering, hope by loss. Capturing the capacity of the
spirit to endure, these poems are careful, intricately rendered
tapestries, at once funny and painful, that address the relentless quest
of the human heart for meaning, magic, resolution, and definition.
Brilliant and entertaining, Looney engages the reader even as he
enlightens. Both plainspoken and mystically speculative, he takes you
line by line to that place where heaven and earth, longing and grief,
meet--and awe begins."--Nin Andrews
George Looney is the chairman of the creative writing program at
Penn State Erie and co-director of the Chautauqua Writers' Festival.