Hy-Brazil is a collection of poems that chronicle world events, shifting scientific frontiers, and notions of subjectivity while attending to issues of form, self-referentiality and one's intertextual place in the literary canon. The book is also a love story, the poet's attempts to seduce his reader. The verse blends pop-music and mythology with other dichotomies like the military and the masochistic. The chronology of "The Janus Initiative" makes it a great bathroom book.