John Godfrey wrote these poems during 2011 and 2012 in Manhattan’s East Village, where he has lived since the 1960s. Previous collections include Tiny Gold Dress (Lunar Chandelier), City of Corners (Wave Books), and Private Lemonade (Adventures in Poetry). Charles Bernstein deduces “an evanescent lilt…[p]erception becomes an aroma of reflection and infatuation in John Godfrey’s fractured songs.” Anselm Hollo says John “hands us…richly unpredictable language…an ever alert eye and ear, a particular human life [that’s] always kept from descending to the obvious or solemn by…humor.”