In This Coalition of Bones , the mortal lessons of the body, the unreliability of the mind, the hyperbole of suburbia, and strange intersections of reality are embroidered into a cerebral, yet evocative landscape. The poems move through an unforgiving, terminal world infused with science, sleight of hand, and the shock of the gross clinic. It is an unsentimental world defined by a playful, eccentric storehouse of created verbs--a place where a glowworm slinkies, girls tween, punks are bonering, people relationship their way into the car, hive their way home. Here iron-jaw artists, anatomical models, and magicians become the mundane while factories and suburban families become transfigured into curiosities.