In this attentively-crafted first book of poems, Gary Lemons moves the reader through interior landscapes rich with loves and losses, unafraid to make the artist's exhaustive ride between inspiration and action, unable to walk away from history. Rooted in an Ethos of working with his hands--from building grain elevators with a crew of Lakota Sioux, to re-foresting clearcuts with a cooperative of artists--Lemon's many lives fall together seamlessly...