This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Cen-ter, Seattle, March 2023.

In Michael Earl Craig's sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar. Whether he be writ-ing 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 First Cow, Iggy Horse is a book that articulates the sadness and strangeness of American life with the poetic observations of true satire.