The first decade of Jacob Kramer's poems, selected and with preface by the author. "Kramer has a distaste not for flowers, but the flowery; his sense that a poem needs to use less words rather than more; his use of the nothing of cancelled verbiage as a cleared space where a poeticized object lets itself be seen with a natural and unadorned aura. [...] A poem wishes to be divinely accessible, exceptional and common at once. This sentiment expresses the program of Kramer's poetry to the extent that it is a poetics." - Jordan DeJonge (Co-author of "Unseasonable Light") "Part of Kramer's wry, luminous poetics is his intention to retain the past as an inalienable root, a nourishment that travels from the unconscious dark to the highest leaf of now. [...] I hear a Provencal minstrel in Kramer, but also a wry and sympathetic modern seer who refuses the usual cliches afforded by search engines. His claims are funny, parodic, sincere, unique and, above this, brave." - John Diamond-Nigh (Author of "Twine")