Loose Ends by Ed Galing ($6)

A thick chapbook of one of Ed's best collections to date, this book covers the gamut of subjects, experiences, themes, and emotions in tidal waves. Often fitting two poems per page, this book is jam-packed and spilling out its guts in true Galing fashion. The book bounces along merrily, keeping a sense of optimism despite the dim outlook of some of the poems' tone, as it jumps from thought to thought in what appears to be a collection of poems that couldn't fit anywhere else, published from other literary endeavors, snippets of life that were found in dresser drawers or under the bed or lost behind the desk until someone fished them out and rescued them on the pages of this all-encompassing memory scrapbook. Tales of living, stories of home, small observations of significance in the mundane; the book is a chance to wear old eyes that have seen more than a lifetime's share of the living scrapbook.