Berkeley, CA: Loveletter Editions. (2006.). SIGNED first edition - Young has been the California Poet Laureate, the recipient of NEA, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, as well as the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction and the PEN/USA Award for Non-Fiction. Yusef Komunyakaa says this collection "invites readers to travel the depth and breadth of his bountiful imagination. There is a deep singing inside of Al Young's poetry, with a hint of Ocean Springs beneath a distilled signifying in the hands of a master code switcher. This seasoned voice knows the music and folklore, the history and lingo..." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2007. Cover art and illustrations by Vivian Torrance. 134 pp. ISBN: 1427601143.