Add to ORKGA lyrical, often sparse collection of poems that confronts themes of addiction, love, death, and wildness, with a tough eloquence that is honest and never easy. Ranging from lyrical explorations of wilderness in poems like A Pilgrimage to abstract surrealist meditations on our place in the universe in reflective pieces like Ruby in the Void and Quantum Gravity to blue collar elegies that mourn the loss and hardships of working class America, The Unearthed searches for meaning not only in the stars and rivers, but in the unlikely places: the gills of a poisonous mushroom, the eyes of prehistoric fish, the heart of a trout, the eyes of a raven. These poems resonate on many levels, most of all on the level of the heart, of experience, an...