It is refreshing and exhilarating to read a poet this sincere, this demanding and lucid in his aspirations toward art and his analyses of our time. –Publishers Weekly Mark Leidner is a poet and my favorite person on Twitter, just a constant source of amazing little images and aphorisms. I've read this book straight through beginning to end once each night since I got it last week. –Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day Such a truly lovely book in all respects. –Dennis Cooper