"These metaphysical and soul-mined transmissions are not fossils but living, breathing dispatches meant to be read aloud. As you speak each one, you experience a mutually shared circuitry between each Venice-themes of nature, nurture, outlaws and angels, love that dazzles and devours. Hopes, dreams, and rages are connected and illuminated, a lyrical dance with tension, rift, battle, and brawl. These poems offer light when a shadowed and exhausted world barely has the voice to reveal its concerns."