The Louisiana Purchase by Jim Goar, that is, the latest title from Rose Metal Press, pictured here fresh out of the mail–note the French flaps:

“Gracefully athletic and soulfully centered, The Louisiana Purchase slides into us bearing an olive branch as its red bird Brock. Always open, ‘never locked,’ Goar’s season on earth contains all the wisdom of the ancient almanacs of the future; a unique, private cosmology founded on the soundest of poetic principles: conservation of what matters. The Louisiana Purchase signals a renewed project in poetry: to seek, perchance to find what is holy, and if not, make it so. This book is an instrument for being,” says Loren Goodman.

Add to cart, I say.