Winner of the 2004 Spokane Prize for Poetry Fate, will, travel, stillness, and the deep bruise of individual history as it becomes political history all shape this new book from David Axelrod. In a language extraordinarily lean and fresh, Axelrod shows what it would be like to be truly alive to the nuance of events, structures, and the declarations of those who are in or out of power. This is an unusual and moving book.