STEBELTON, Chuck. Circulation Flowers. San Diego: Tougher Disguises, 2005. First Edition. Trade paperback. 202x152mm 75pp. Fine.

Winner of the 2004 Jack Spicer Award, Chuck Stebelton's CIRCULATION FLOWERS is a beautiful collection of lyric meditations that, appropriately enough, seem to channel Spicer's biting wit and pair it with Ceravolo's infinite miniature gestures, while maintaining a voice entirely their own. These poems believe in poetry, they tackle the everyday as if it were a monumental conundrum. Amidst his father's Corvair and horses, and after running down five songs in five minutes, Stebelton asserts, "I'm writing Americana in ink" and in fact, he is. Introduced by Chris Stroffolino, who judged the award, and manages to say in his introduction, some pretty darn interesting things in only a few pages.