The best kind of writing is the kind that challenges you, makes you feel uncomfortable, and elicits an emotional reaction that you didn't see coming.

Each and every piece in this collection exhibits the best kind of writing. ( )

There is so much here. ( )

This is poetry that leaves you in awe of its creator and his craft—and hence, supremely envious. Because how does he *do* that? ( )

Just a really beautiful and haunting collection. The collection runs in an almost-chronological fashion, so it transforms in this almost story-like fashion, as you watch the tone of the poems shift from concerns of boyhood to elsewhere. It's so worth seeing that transformation especially in considering the shifting way of approaching looking death in the face all the time throughout. There are so many poems in this that I loved; the "Dispatches from the Black Barbershop, Tony's Chair." triad was so good, and "When I say that loving me is kind of like being a Chicago Bulls fan" is just. really incredible. ( )