M. Travis Lane's poetry has always been diverse: variously serious, silly, melancholy, cheerful, meditative, witty, philosophical, enigmatic, colloquial, intimate, simple, complex. She shifts easily from lyric to monologue to epigram to song to riddle, drawing inspiration equally from the natural world and the world of art and imagination, but she does write, almost always, as if she were addressing the reader, not muttering to herself. Though her concerns are often feminist, environmental, civic, and political, her poems transcend such labels. Crossover, Lane's fifteenth collection, is a continuation of one poet's exploration of the world and of her inner world, shared with us in the conviction that the spaces we inhabit overlap and connect.