Poetry. "Perlman"s forest of "consciousness conscious" begins at the edge of the 20th century wasteland and leads us into a wilderness where history moves vertically, straight or fractured, leafy or bare, toward an ever-impossible sky. Take a walk with him in this "palindrome of pilgrimage utter coincidence found and lost" - he"s our new Thoreau/Beston/Muir and he"s going to teach us how "to get out of the world alive" -Craig Watson.