The All Nighter's Radio

Travis Lane offers a world intensified, as if each starfish, hummingbird, and blade of Bermuda grass were seen through a magnifying glass. Revealing things in their vivid complexity, she also gives us a wider, larger vision of all that lies before us. This strong, sharply intelligent collection of poems is a call to pay attention, "though your fingers burn/though your eyes sting" -- Anne Simpson.