Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Shane Book s collection, Ceiling of Sticks, is a powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics. It bears elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. Book s poems carry us to Uganda, Ghana, Mali, Trinidad, and Canada s west coast; from a religious sacrifice in Tarahumara, Mexico, to Book s ailing grandfather s bedside. They bring an intimate vision of humanity to scenes of inhuman atrocity and suffering; a moment of clarity and empathy to individuals overwhelmed by war or other man-made catastrophes....