Poetry. "These poems interrogate the relations between a disintegrating body-politic and a resistant subjectivity so insightfully, so unblinkingly, and so viscerally that they all but dare the reader to walk away unchanged. With characteristic lyric grace and surgical precision, Pearson offers us that rare and complete literary experience which simultaneously demands and releases `the world.' SONGS ASIDE is a crowning achievement in a singular and extraordinary career"--Craig Watson. Ted Pearson teaches at Wayne State University and is the author of EVIDENCE: 1975-1989 and PLANETARY GEAR.