In these poems, born from a personal experiment into channeling a prosodic alter-ego, Sexton ranges from the formal to the projective - out of this world, and out of his mind. From famous mice to an entropic rose, from a transubstantiated piano to the final vision of Saint Aquinas, from elegies for Michael Jackson to Neda Agha-Soltan, these poems provide a map from the past and the future to the eternal now. John W. Sexton is the author of five previous poetry collections and lives in Ireland.