‘Desire Path‘ is a masterful collaboration by four very distinct poets who manage to complement and complete on another with grace. The book is rife with a kind of longing, a hopefulness of inquiry. Each of these poets preforms a dangerous and necessary balancing act – from Goodman’s passion and wry existentialism to Trede’s feisty gift for candor and image-making, from Silverman’s close ecstatic observations of the natural world to Wallace’s blinding impressionism. These are poems that attempt to hold both flesh and spirit together without denying the paradoxical, without overlooking the odd vocation of being human. -Kate Knapp Johnson