It's all here, from Einstein and Malthus to Bergen and McCarthy, from fields of interred remains of pets where our strange human love lives on, engraved in stone, to rain forests where butterflies beat their fragile wings to create the measured chaos of our lives. Gary Fincke sifts through the fossil record of the present, making high art from the objects and ideas that fill our seasons, and in so doing, this talented and articulate poet teaches us, touches us. - David Citino