From Publishers Weekly This subtly nuanced collection suggests both the nature of consciousness and the forms of conventional poetries. Ronk's main preoccupation is the conflict occasioned by a poetry that attempts to apprehend the states of mind of others through an author's hyper-alert attentions. "The question of other minds is the question" is the line that opens the book, and in the collection's first half, called "State of Transition," the poet finds little success in capturing experi...