This collection is about war. It is also about falling apart when that is the only route left to sanity. It takes place during the 1960s and early 1970s, from New York's streets to Vietnam and India. Untouched by nostalgia or baby-boomer sentimentality, these poems offer a searing, visceral look at the narrator's attempts to find hints of coherence within a violent world.

Closing the Hotel Kitchen is about war. It is also about falling apart when that is the only road left to sanity. Set in the 1960s and early 1970s in New York City, Vietnam, and India.