The Switch Yards by Michael Rerick

What starts with a walk and a dream in Michael Rerick‘s newest collection springs suddenly out into the world full as it is with war and confusion, with science and shopping, with lightning and what’s lost when it strikes again. He divines definitions for things and their slippery components as they interchange and get renamed. Where “the legend key reads/part future part night” we can see whenever we say “we know so much,” how little we actually know – but the possibilities of knowing what we have and what we’ll lose is omni-present and astonishing.

–Tony Mancus

This book exists in the liminal spaces between waking and sleeping, between shifting thoughts, between words, between what we are and what we’re meant to be. It is occasionally tranquil, often uncomfortable, and always surprising.

–Melissa Koosmann