Gillian McCain's poems are like urgent telegrams from next door, or oddly but brilliantly cropped shapshots of the life that is going by."
–John Ashbery

"In this brilliant collection of prose poems, Gillian McCain takes us on high-velocity spins to the four corners of what we thought was a familiar world. Neither it nor we will ever be quite the same again. So "be careful of the swallows when you open the garage door."
–Harry Matthews