<DIV>Mark Nowak encounters the whispers of creation and cultural remembrance in his eminent, visionary poetry. <I>Revenants</I> is an original return to a splendid ethos of ancestral word patterns, and the images bear the solemn pleasures of time, place, and singular landscapes.&mdash;Gerald Vizenor<BR><BR>This first book length collection of poetry by the editor of the journal <I>XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics</I> explores the Polish American neighborhoods in and around Buffalo, New York, finding collective truths in the particularity of a unique culture.<BR><BR><B>Mark Nowak</B> is the editor of Theodore Enslin&rsquo;s selected poems, <I>Then, and Now,</I> and an associate professor at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His poems have been anthologized in <I>An Anthology of New (American) Poets</I> and <I>Children of the Cold War: A Scrapbook</I>.</DIV>