“Disinterested in verbal idiosyncrasy, Josh Rathkamp writes poems that are minutely observant, tender, grave, and true. His vision is clear and telling, and the poems muse with natural grace over lives and encounters at fairground, garage sale, lunch counter, neighborhood driveway, and interstate rest stop, during parades and road trips, in Mexico, Michigan, and Nice. We travel with him gladly, recognizing these personal places and seeing ourselves.” —Carol Frost

REVIEWS & COMMENTS

“Touching upon a medley of topics in everyday life, from getting directions, to interacting with a lunch lady who uses bad language, to listening to a duet on the radio. An eclectic medley combining slice-of-life storytelling with wistful emotion, and brimming with the earthy quality of the everyday human experience.” —Susan Bethany, The Midwest Book Review