Richard Stevenson was born on this planet 51 years ago, though he's still waiting to be beamed aboard a saucer bound for Zeti Reticuli and the outer meninges. He is the author of thirteen previous collections, including, most recently, A Murder of Crows: New & Selected Poems (Black Moss Press, 1999), Nothing Definite Yeti (YA verse, Ekstasis Editions, 1998), Live Evil: A Homage To Miles Davis (Thistledown Press, 2000), and Hot Flashes: Maiduguri Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka (Ekstasis Editions, 2001). He teaches and helps run a reading series, and occasionally performs his work with the jazz-poetry troupe Naked Ear and children's verse/ jazz-rock troupe Sasquatch, and has called Lethbridge, Alberta (wear the fox hat!) home for the past thirteen years. No one's punched his ticket yet, but he remains hopeful that there is intelligent life "out there." Book jacket.