This is a beautifully American book, as heartbreakingly accommodating as Ellis Island, and we mix around with Jonathan Edwards, Yeats, Bob Marley, Henry Miller, Cat Stevens, da Vinci, Bob Dylan and Basho, not to mention the street-weary spooks and hustlers of our national anonymity—a great, broken population for which, from the lofty to the funky, Ryan gives soulful, saxophoneful voice.
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Albert Goldbarth