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sleepless night on top of a pea under twenty mattresses brings the two young men together and sends them on a quest out into the kingdoms

hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet

the invention of a flamboyant local dermatologist

Among the Crags of the Eyrie Space Opera How do our notions ofDaniel Shapiro's Among the Crags of the Eyrie brings together several strands in the poet's oeuvre to date, namely, confessional poetry, poems relating to family and relationships, and ekphrastic verse. The poems in this new collection are constructed with remarkable precision, each a gift of music and form. They seek to ascend and descend, the way eagles do from their eyries, but also transcend, as suggested in the title poem. Others grouped in the