Randall Watson's first full-length collection reveals the tenderness in situations and perceptions so extreme, we would normally consider them hallucinatory. Tornadoes, floods, sudden transformations, inexplicable weeping, tragic waitresses, "A woman and a man and what lies between them,/ a wall and a look, an eye, a house/ in Paris, a rising, a trinity/ of entrance, triumvirate/ of possibility." All of this brought with such crispness of timing, such fresh and intimate voicing, it is a great pleasure to read and recognize this world you never expected you had known.