A Bold New poetry collection from Chris Ransick

Four years in the making, this new poetry collection represents fresh terrain for Ransick as he explores the often permeable membrane dividing the conscious and subconscious worlds.

From the narrow lanes of the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise to suburban alleys where laughing children sprout wings and fly away, the strange becomes familiar and the familiar, strange. These shape-shifting landscapes where anything can happen—and does—are bold, evocative, even risky as they pull the reader toward difficult truths and the deeper questions they suggest, flitting at the edge of vision. Throughout it all, the poet translates a rich panolpy of imagery into language both precise and surprising, creating a music that will haunt the reader long after the back cover closes.

In the words of centenarian poet Stanley Kunitz, "What is [poetry] about? That's a hard question. It's about anything the human mind and unconscious can produce. And that's infinite." Come along to that place. Fall for, and fall Asleep Beneath the Hill of Dreams.

"Following Richard Hugo as much as John Wesley Powell, Chris Ransick is an exacting cartographer of the West's vast landscapes, physical and emotional, rendering them with such care you will agree with him. "This is where/ you have always lived, no matter what they say." -- Jake Adam York author of Murder Ballads

"Chris Ransick shares with the reader a sense of the human experience that is both a part of and apart from the natural world." -- The Billings Outpost