With a mix of political commentary and lyricism in a range of forms, Touche evokes an adrenaline rush as the reader is swept up into Rod Smith's unique blend of humor. I am no I I slight I've taught myself to unwrite & then wreathed, saturate, blank the severed glinting worlds rebelieve or they all access overall not-so, a not-so lucid, a lucid one, the squirrels that I live there ^.^ ~ alright then, alright mr squirrel there, yep. Rod Smith edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. Smith co-edited The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, (University of California Press, 2014).