X Matthew Holmes Bifford makes use of folkloric

Bifford makes use of folkloric motifs and the juxtaposition of wilderness and urban environments to emphasize radical gaps in human understanding

" and to "compare scars" along the way

the wife negotiating a cocktail party as canoe trip

Without philosophical discourse or interrogation

conniving: 'what next thing can I say that you weren't

X Matthew Holmes Bifford makes use of folkloricDescription One of the first lines of X, Shane Rhodes' sixth book of poetry, is a warning: "this book of verse demands more of verse, this book demands perversity." He goes on to write: This book is about where I live, a place still settling, still making the landlaw by law, arrest by arrest, jail by jailits own snow blown Heed this warning. In X, Rhodes takes poetry from the comfortable land of the expected to places it has seldom been. Writing