From its haunted opening to the complex affirmation of its final lines, this profound collection by Dabney Stuart presents a palimpsest of the spirit in the modern age. With jagged syncopations, lyrical stop-time, and a kind of elegiac swing, these poems spiral through multiple dimensions of time, memory, and emotion--from post-World War II America to the South Pacific-evoking perspectives of the psyche as brooding and cryptic as the Antarctic. Long...