Christopher Bernard, "one of [our] best-kept lyric secrets" (Ivan Arguelles), offers a magnificent new collection of poems to help inspire us through this age of emergency as we face a pandemic, a crisis of democracy, and a world racing toward environmental disaster. "A vibrant and focused collection" (Marvin R. Hiemstra); poems "lyrical, funny, haunting, provocative, and sometimes maddening . . . adventurous, entertaining, and full of life" (Jane Tompkins). "With humor, grace, and human insight, Bernard leads us toward our ever-nearing future" (Keith Ekiss).