What a bounty to have Jamey Jones' first seven chapbooks, with original covers and illustrations, collected together in one volume! Here is a poet's passage of song, where an opera of living comes at us full-throated as it unfolds. In this gulf coast panhandle mid America reality, dreamscapes wash over us, flies think, numbers blow backwards, fish swim in a freeway ravine, and Anselm Hollo famously notes, "Poetry can be so many more things than what people mostly believe it is."