This is a collection of poetry by Eric Zeidler. Going from poem to poem, the reader can trace the artist's growth and development over time (1981-2009), beginning with ornately rhymed and metered creations inspired by Milton, Blake and the Romantics, progressing to Free verse experimentation inspired by Baudelaire and Rimbaud, and culminating in crafted poems inspired by the Russian Acmeists (Mandelstam and Akhmatova) in which as William Carlos Williams famously phrased it, the poem becomes a "machine of words."