A new collection from one of our most skilled practitioners of formal verse. “Jeffrey Burghauser's poetry tackles the eternal questions with verbal, intellectual and emotional precision.”—Theodore Dalrymple is a teacher in Columbus, Ohio. He was educated at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at the University of Leeds. He currently studies the five-string banjo with a focus on prewar picking styles. A former artist-in-residence at the Arad Arts Project (Israel), his poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in , (Iceland), (where he’s a regular contributor) , and He is the author of (2019).