The mood and scope of the whole are sounded in Part I, The New Odysseus, a series of twenty linked poems,
where a somewhat weary new Odysseus invokes his legendary adventures and various gods as he wanders
both in the Tacoma present and yet in other lands and times, with an eye on our absurd world of the coffee
house, sex change, the mall, pogo sticks, an anomalous game of cricket, poverty, yearning, old age, mortality,
a quiet,...
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