Jon Plaisted's poetry has always been marked by a richness of language, devotion to apocalyptic burdens, wry and real. In this collection of poems and "fragments" as he calls them, are recollections of the raw emotional and ragged spontaneity of a romantic in the grip of lust, longing and heartache. From brief imagistic lyrics to extended, complex meditations he captures the vibrant, visceral, ramshackle sound of poetry made on the fly. --back cover....