“These verses allow readers to draw their own conclusions about the costs of human progress and even consider what no longer exists: ‘The ground is woven with the diaphanous swelling of where a birch once was … it is there, even after the ax, even after the hollering rot of a stump.’ Overall, Teresi’s collection offers a cleareyed, inventive take on the effects of power. A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Echoing out from etymology, ‘the place where they plant the unwanted,’ reveling in the pastiche surrreality of U.S. cultural and political history, ‘where each side of time lives in the other’s deepest past,’ Christian Teresi’s exquisite poems are that rare work wrought from deep necessity and sung from an even deeper compassion. Each line captures the ache of desire, the delicate dance of hope, each poem lingering long after reading, haunting ‘As murmurs no longer fluent in their origin.’ Deft in form, this is a dazzling collection, reminding us we are all ‘where the landscape nurtures the in-between,’ and there, in yearning and grace, ‘The end has never been the end.’” — J. Michael Martinez, author of Tarta Americana and Museum of the Americas