\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Interstate\u0026lt;/i\u0026gt; is a collection of lyrical poems in four sections that concentrate thematically on animals, love and sex, compassion, and loss. A unifying elegiac conceit, even in the more ecstatic and humorous poems, betrays the bittersweet nature of the book\u0026#39;s muse. Alternating between free and formal verse, the poems contain a lyrical tension in which their \u0026quot;broken music\u0026quot; evokes metaphysical paradoxes, romantic humor, and the \u0026quot;dark sounds\u0026quot; that effect what Garcia Lorca called \u0026quot;the power everyone feels\u0026quot; in the mystery of duende \u0026quot;but no philosopher can explain.\u0026quot;
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