LSU Press Paperback Original<BR><BR>"This book can be read as a kind of antidote to the heady bumbo-jumbo jibber-jabber of our detached poetic times. It believes in the world without embarrassment---the one where you live in one place until you die.' It believes in other things, too---family, long love, `the rocking chair bookcase Chester Cornett built,' `a walnut handle...like / a sky if the stars are dark,' and many other handmade and earth-born examples of what Scafidi calls `dumb-luck whisky wonder and grace.' You'll love this speaker's gratitude, his willingness to take the long view, his open-heartedness, the community he commemorates and mourns. Even his arguments with death are gracious. This is a book of thanks, a book of celebrations and prayers. A `ramshackle shining,' indeed."---Adrian Blevins<BR><BR>"Imagine a poem putting its arm in yours and talking, in language brash and delightful and clear as a bell, pointing its other hand at the bizarre, lovely, crushing, sexy, disappearing world. Now imagine a whole book of that. You're holding it! The Cabinetmaker's Window is wrought of the belief in the redemptive and transformative power of talking to each other of what we love in plain music. There is to me almost nothing as beautiful or true."---Ross Gay<BR><BR>Praise For Steve Scafidi<BR><BR>"This poet engages life on multiple levels---not complacent in the presence of suffering and not ignoring injustice, but open to the possibilities of grace, of beauty, of atonement."---Philip Belcher, Southern Quarterly<BR><BR>"When I tell you [Scafidi] is a poet of impressive reach and Elizabethan exuberance, you may take me at my word. Imaginatively adroit, formally outfitted without necessarily being formally complex, his work inhabits a large cognitive and imagistic space where ostensible subjects---snakes and weasels, a burning truck, the spruce front of a violin---grow into emanations or strands of implication." ---David Rigsbee, Cortland Review