In this suite of 25 interconnected poems, Jason Gerrish through his speaker Hal Lavoie, takes up a solitary residence in a Fleetwood trailer on a farm off Old State Road to teach himself to write.Old State RoadrepresentsHal's struggle to make sense of his previously squandered life and his attempt to chisel it into Art. Brad Dalton's accompanying25 ambrotype and tintype photographs of dilapidated rural scenes reinforce Gerrish's idea of time having slipped away and is captured in his stark, artistic images. George Douglas Anderson, Publisher Editor Bold Monkey ... allow your eye some time to really absorb Daulton's tin- or ambrotype photographs the twisted trunks and vines, those layered textures of snow and field and barn and smokehouse, the lines and shadows of ax and banjo and the edgy contours of all those skulls and bones. The primal, visceral imagery in those visuals mirrors the intense and precise language in the poems and together they pack awalloping emotionalpunch that will