"Crisply comic, disarmingly frank, and aurally bold ..."
--Publishers Weekly

This collection by African American poet Tim Seibles explores a range of poetic form, including lyric, ode, narrative, and mystical. Like a "fast animal," the poet's voice can swiftly change direction and tone as he crisscrosses between present and past.

"Built like one single sustained song, "Fast Animal" is alive with music, ardor, and wit that flow in utterances that are uniquely Seibles'] and his alone."--Laure-Anne Bosselaar, author of "The Hour Between"

From "Delores Jepps"

"It seems insane now,...

One Turn Around the Sun is a panorama of poems that attempts to define the first appearances of life's twilight. The book also studies the intricacies of being a self: a particular personality shaped by forces seen and unseen, both knowable and not. At times, the various voices might be considered characters that agree and sustain one perspective. In other cases, contending sensibilities imply an underlying argument. This is especially true of the book within the book, which is entitled "The Hilt." Several questions drive this collection, the most central being "how can a person...