Poetry. "By turns tender, tart, gently ironic, heartbreakingly beautiful, Ron Overton's poems celebrate what is lost and what is found in the neon rainbowed urban/suburban world of late twentieth century America, life as advertised and life as really lived, life of the soft and soap and the hard sell, life of no deposit / and many happy returns,' the Shutout of nothingness / the Empty & Abandoned Stadium of our Dreams,' the rootless suburbs' 7-Elevens and the homeless big city's eye level' accidents, restless America on the move"-L.S. Asekoff.