In this anthology of representative poems from Nepotism (1990), Vernissage (1992), Racing for the Red Light (1996), NY Notes (2002), Plenary Indulgences (2010), and The Swan in the Runoff (2013), the same blend of bitter humor, irony, and terror that one finds in everyday life is given wide expression. Mixing the ordinary with the extraordinary, poetry is both praise and music--a strange amalgam of ideas, contextual therapy, even metrical consonance with ones heartbeat.