Gregory Warren Wilson's exciting new collection provokes and challenges the reader. Warren Wilson suggests that disclosure - whether of love or anguish - is hazardous because it can betray as well as illumine. But which is more likely to put things in jeopardy: the outspoken or the unspoken? "Staged Whispers", the second half of this collection, is voiced through a ventriloquist's dummy. It exposes the desolation, frustration and fleeting euphoria experienced by a performer on stage and off. For lovers of words and music, Warren Wilson's direct and insistent voice is sure to captivate and entertain.