The moment one sees that this volume of poems opens with a "Warning" & a "Retraction", it is clear that here is a rare combination of wit & seriousness. Educator & author John Senior writes poetry that is at once robust & refined, formal & iconoclastic, outrageously humorous yet contemplative. Rarely is contemporary poetry so learned yet "accessible." Who else could write poems about everything from Aphrodite at the Fitness Center to Depression-era visionaries?