Jeremy Reed's first novel is a powerfully evocative and beautifully written book that takes one on a young man's journey to the bottom of the night. It is also, as Kathleen Raine has noted in her introduction, the novel of a poet, full of imaginative compassion for the night lost and a testament to poetic conviction, the word that is delivered from darkness. Jeremy Reed's range and originality as a poet and novelist have been acclaimed by many reviewers,...