Scope and Contents On pages 245-253, Lazer analyzes the poetry of Jake Berry and mentions that the original manuscripts of Brambu Drezi are held by the Sackner Archive. Arch Llewellyn reviews this book on Amazon.com: "Lyric & Spirit presents a measured, thoughtful, even courtly case for the sophisticated interplay of musicality and form in the woollier manifestations of lyric since the Sixties. The book collects 12 years of essays, and in places the dating shows--apex of the M is still a hot topic, and the musical canon Lazer advances (Monk, Coltrane, Cage) is already pretty canonical. Lazer has a sharp, sympathetic eye for the poetic outliers of his generation, and the attention he brings to the poems he considers exemplify the kind of intent listening and open-minded "habitation" in the fractured, quickened musics of the post-Creeley lyric that the best contemporary work requires. A great book for anyone "on the fence" about the pleasures of experimental U.S. poetry, or curious to know why the...