Poetry. "In Michael Gottlieb's new book, THE LIKES OF US, each phrase is like a shady character. Each disqualifies itself, somehow, leaving us where we really are: in a landscape composed of doubtful moral states. What lies in wait for the reader of THE LIKES OF US? Disturbing complicities? "Monstrous discoveries?"--Rae Armantrout. "Michael Gottlieb's poetry eliminates the distinction between traditional elegiac lyric and the avant-garde poetic impulse. Incessant detail, along with mental and social phenomena--now-blurred, now razor-sharp--build gradually into a richly dissonant, inviting resonance. As beautiful as it is exacting, THE LIKES OF US will reward the energy you give it many times over"--Drew Gardner.