<p><span><b>In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.</b></span></p><p><span>Whether he be writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the “Italy of God,” or the milking rituals in Kelly Reichardt’s <i>First Cow</i>, <i>Iggy Horse</i> is a book that articulates the sadness and strangeness of American life with the poetic observations of true satire.</span><br></p><p><span></span></p>