Selected by Harold Bowes and with an Introduction by former Strange Horizons poetry editor Mardel James-Bose (with cover image by Bob Dornberg), this long-overdue “selected poems of” collection will please the many Ackerson fans and gain him new admirers along the way. To quote Clemens Starck, one of the several people to write comments for the book (joining Carlos Reyes, Vern Rutsala and Peter Sears): “Miniature sagas of lost refrigerators and wind-up roosters, a classroom of frogs and how to make doorknob soup; the story of the man who opened up a cheeseburger stand on the moon; how fire was once used to put out water, and the account of a disastrous misunderstanding about omelets and broken eggs—these are just a few of the marvelous whimsies and cockeyed creations of Duane Ackerson, the work of a true original.”