The poems in Alphabets of Elsewhere are richly colored dispatches from places of from artist lofts and suburban train lines to the painted walls of Florentine chapels and the top of the Twin Towers. Set around the troubled dawn of the new millennium, these poems blend music with image, loud song with quiet prayer, charting relationships lost and found and mapping wildly unexpected routes to all those elsewheres we can find in the very language that we live.