The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "verb" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry out their faith within a hookless frameworkÊthat sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms & tropes as "the memoir," "genealogy" and "the shepherd's calendar." With a rural pen, these poems talk frogs, carrots, local noises, partial words, remnants, dirt roads, deep breath & hope:my laboratory the momentisÊaccordion-shaped - cluttered - sopping& not eternal | The Small Nouns Crying Faith by Phil Hall, Paperback | Indigo Chapters