You Might Appreciate This is a collection of not really poems but more like one-hundred-and-fifty failed little novels-emphasis on "failed." These mini-novels have no titles but numbers. They cruise from one emotion to the next as Swirski takes a 2 a.m. drive and suffers the rebukes of someone he once loved and might love again.

His poems are real. If you recognize yourself, its probably because hes writing about you, even if you hope he isnt. With raw, jagged emotion, Swirski unearths what is ugly and egotistical while grasping at the hope that theres more to this life than...