“Michael Lally is excited by the power of truth.” —The New Yorker

“Lally’s new poems comprise a small but decisive shift of tone in which the wisdom of a survivor is seamlessly wedded to the original quicksilver sensibility. Here is the soul of a great American poet.” —Aram Saroyan

“Reading this book I can feel the New York streets under my feet, hear the voices and the traffic, smell the air, all, in romantic retrospect, beautiful. Of course, because Lally’s a romantic in the full sense of the word, I also (re)experience the heartache of life on those streets.” —Hubert Selby, Jr.