After Hours (Body Electric)

In his mesmerizing debut poetry collection, Jason Roush interweaves the worlds of personal nostalgia and urban nightlife--Boston, New York, London, Paris, Rome--to arrive at a quietly exhilarating fusion of atmosphere and sensibility. Dreams and waking life, memory and desire, sprawling cityscapes and Ohio countrysides: all conspire under a veil of darkness that comforts and unsettles at once. Lucid yet intricate, this tightly knit sequence of twenty-two poems offers a bold, introspective view of people and places spellbound by the night.