Poetry. Called a fossil record of the collective unconscious, 1001 FACTS OF PREHISTORIC LIFE is the work of a small-c creationist whose daring poems find and confound unholy, missing links between Darwinian survival and Scheherazadian untruths; between lies that bind and those that–after whatever our species or fashion–liberate us to take delight in, if not to forestall, our ineluctable demise.