Passing World Pictures

Poetry. "Loosely based on Japanese tourist manuals from the 1930s, these minimalistdistillations are flavored with an ambient exoticism that never quite adds up to any realplace on the map; instead, they create one on the page, rooted in tight sounds andstartling juxtapositions. 'Tiny altars/salt and pepper'-- Coulton's ear and eye are deft at picking out the other within us and dazzling us with its flares" --Cole Swensen. "In passing world pictures, ephemeral images float across the horizon we know as poetry.Bridging culture and time, these poems cast a fresh and subtle light" --Elizabeth Robinson.