The Blue Absolute’s? prose poems

are hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action—urban and pastoral, highly figured and fragmented, grieving and dreaming—each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity.

The book closes with “Shiver,”

an American epic, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco—past, present, and future.