A Sorting of the Ways: New and Selected Poems : 39 West Press : 9780615504643 : 0615504647 : 01 Jul 2011 : Following his break-through first volume of poems, "Through the Years" (2010), and its successor, "Roberta and Other Poems" (2011), Ricardo Quinones has upped the ante with a generous selection from those earlier volumes and additions from a ready supply of new poems presented here. "A Sorting of the Ways: New and Selected Poems" contains such poems as "The Grafting Tree," a mythical marriage between a giant oak and a chair; "Ten and More," the record of a ten-year-old's deflating experience of the Korean War after the jubilation of 1945 and the end of WWII; "To Pick a Penny," another far-reaching poem about the magic qualities of a penny; and "Spoiler Speech," the fragile hold of civilized consciousness against the uprising of a primitive rage. The volume also announces the demise of the popular "Wallet Poems," mainly by virtue of their own superabundanc