<DIV><p><I>June</I> takes up the whirlpooling, epic project of Daniel Brenner's prizewinning <I>The Stupefying Flashbulbs</I>. Narrative emerges despite the "pleasurable obstacles" (as one reviewer called them) of these poems, which, in hallucinatory, luminous, yet spare verbiage trace the obscure appearances of "perfumed people," pioneers all?including one Xi An, a "guardian of paradise"?as they weather a flood, butchery, and "blistering synthesis."</p><p><B>From "Wax":<BR></B></p><p><I>Palsied pioneers<BR>A radioactive heat<BR>The flood is coming<BR>Time to wrap chemicals<BR>About the whirlpool<BR>With speciousness</I></p><p><B>Daniel Brenner</B> was born in Pennsylvania, and currently lives and writes in Jersey City, NJ. He went to Bard College.</p><BR></DIV>