In Ross’ seventh book of poetry, he explores the relationship of words—Middle to Excluded, Dizzy to Morality, Language to Stump, for -example—brilliantly revealing the processes of thought and the -associative relationships of everything to everything else, of concepts to gardens to weeds to seeds to plants to addiction to matches. Winner of the 2003 Gertrude Stein Award (selected by Douglas Messerli) Ross is a magician of language.