There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick

12.00 Michael Teig’s long-awaited second collection is the perfect poetry companion: witty, intriguing, and self-effacing as it picks up overheard conversations and the accidental encounters of everyday life. As Stephen Dobyns wrote, Teig’s poems “have this ability to make the world fresh again and make us realize once again why we love the world, despite its failings and our own.” “under one box another box” I head off like an inventory             like a kindergartenunder one box is a pie             the sky too is a box                          into whichwe turn to each other              take stock maybe the sky accidentally             knocks over a boxso that a new person spills outand gets included Praise for There’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick “In this beautiful book, Michael Teig maps the mercurial terrain of the imagination with such equipoise you may forget you’re dreaming just as these pages are so soaked with the miraculous everyday, you may forge