Poetry. "Doug MacPherson and Edward Smallfield have managed to combine some of the more powerful lines of recent memory in poems skillfully whittled down to the marrow. They have also splayed together intricately lyrical narratives ranging from imperial and postwar Japan to modern day California, evincing lust"s inevitable train wreck of pursuit, attainment, and aftermath"-David Harrison Horton. "The graceful turning of provocative images draws one into a colorful and unpredictable course"-Denise Newman.