Poetry. California Interest. In LUMINOUS RUSE, Paul Naylor asks, "Who could suture the wounds we become / in this diaphanous life divided as time?" The poet's answer has a lot to do with his being father to a young daughter, whose sharp questions punctuate the book like koans. That she is growing up in a world dominated by Capital, environmental degradation, and other American ills, drives this long poem-sequence; the poems outward in longer lines,...