"Readers of this third collection by Gallaher (The Little Book of Guesses) will recognize a few tricks learned from John Ashbery — a multiplicity of chatty voices echoing within the same poem, slightly grouchy associative leaping down the page — but Gallaher does not stop there. 'I told as much of the truth as I could imagine,' opens one poem. The same poem ends, 'And we all shared one thought./ One crowded thought.' Within that framework — a world as vast and or limited as an observer's imagination, and minds that every so often happen to understand each other — Gallaher's whimsical and empathic poems unfold. The subjects of these poems are stalked by their fantasies ('A film crew will follow you, they promise. And a little/ dog') and face the inevitable with a bit of a grin ('All the old people left and then we were the old people'). Throughout, these lines are filled with pleasure and wisdom." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)