An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsawthe book's central imageall manner of human traits are reflected with an intense, often comical brilliance. Brilliant ....certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English. Anthony Hecht, author of