<div><p>Falling somewhere between a "diary-poem," a "daybook," "autobiography-in-verse," and an "essay-poem," <i>In a Landscape</i> is noted poet and critic John Gallaher's most personal, straightforward, and revealing book yet. In lyric-prose that continuously circles the questions it raises, Gallaher sloughs off the garb of "poet" to address life questions in a way that few poets of his generation have been willing to risk. Family, death, adoption, children, parents, high school, music . . . Gallaher's subjects carry weight because of their absolute commonness.</P><p><b>John Gallaher</b> is assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University, and co-editor of the <i>Laurel Review</i>.</div>