Poetry. ...these are the poems Stephen Vincent has been preparing to write his entire life. They definitely pass the 'take the top of your head off' test. I went cover to cover without even sitting up--Ron Silliman. Stephen Vincent's observant, large-hearted poems bundled into book form, engaging architecture, people on the move, the seasons and other transience, the talk that binds the day: Goodbye, rhetoric, the desperate, /what can the poem do, walking, step-by-step: / witness, suffer, hope. Urbane and companionable, rare virtues flaunted here, curbside delight--Bill Berkso