"Ugly Duckling Presse (this is a little affected, but it is from New York,) needs to be supported in every way possible their books do honor to poetry, the quality of the printing, and design is extraordinary in the true sense of the word. Mark Lamoureux, author of City/Temple has created a small chapbook tha holds more poetry than allot of 200 page tomes to poetic self-absorption.

These titleless poems invite you in, and then slice your fingers like a paper cut that stings and yearns to be salved. The chapbook is a journey like a great Issac Asimov novel full of innovation and word usage that opens up and closes at will.

for example:

"Burst heart

screamed out

through the spaces

between his teeth

& the corners of

his eyes"

This work is honest bracing "faces & faces & the flat effigies of faces" tears at you and when you finish this small book it leaves you empty wanting a longer tome to consume slowly.

So when can we expect more?"

--Ray Bianchi from Chicago Postmodern Poetry