25 pp. + colophon. 'John Brehm was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburgh Review, New England Review, The Southern Review, Epoch, Poetry Northwest, The Best American Poetry, 1999, and other journals. A recipient of fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts and Yaddo, he has taught at Cornell, Emerson College, and Portland State University. He now works as a freelance writer and lives in Brooklyn, New York.' 'We would hold back until the sky / was fuming black with clouds / swollen to bursting aboce us, / until the air turned to a lush / flourescent violet, thickened / with the scent of certain rain, / until a rockslide of thunder / trembled the leaves / of lilac bushes, before / my brother and I would leap / into the street . . .'--from Rain Dance.