C.E. Putnam's first book. Contains the poems "Young Caedmon," "Oregon," "Dad is Two Heroes," "What Ever Happened to Uncle Wayne?," "Selected Mediterranean Diaries from a Day in July," "Pushed Forwrad, Not Nebraska," and many more.

In 1999, the author moved into an old apartment building in Seattle, Washington that once served as a bank during the Alaskan Gold Rush. Soon he began to hear strange sounds and voices coming out of mysterious pipes in the subterranean bank vault. Though he never discovered the true source of these sounds, he was able to record and transcribe them through some D.I.Y. electronic wizardry. He then wrote and recorded transmission responses of his own, sending them back out into the world. This book is a written record of these response transmissions.

Many of the poems in C.E. Putnam's third book got their start in stolen work moments from 1997-1998 whilst working various jobs in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Spaces Where Spaces Are also includes the sixteen part post-apocalyptic diary poem, "Periodic Zone: Log," and the text/poem companion for the art opening "Recent in Origin: A visual anthem for the wet frontier" as well as twenty never before published handbills promoting the show.

XX Elegies is a broken-lyric re-versioning of John Donne's Elegies, Donne's fabulously strange and disturbed poem series of sex and death, longing and loss. It is presented here for the first time with Donne's original text and includes letters of correspondence between the two authors regarding their collaboration.