Poetry. "These are poems of such compassionate energy and social power that they would make both Whitman and Neruda proud. James Nolan is the prodigy of both, at home in their company. A New Orleanian with a well-stamped passport, he knows the world's suffering and is a brilliant cartographer of our age. After the last century's horrors and orgies, his voice heralds with clarity the twenty-first century. 'Night School: A Lesson in the Columbus Continuous' is a masterpiece that needs to be in every textbook. It has the beat of a loving heart, the bite of truth's irony, and prophesizes America's future. Nolan is one of this country's treasures."--Andrei Codrescu