Bob Hamblin doesn't miss much of importance, whether he actually remembers it or makes it up, like any poet, to fill the gaps that memory can't reach. These strong, evocative poems will reach those gaps in our memories, too, make us whole by removing the screens which often keep us from remembering what we saw, from seeing what we remember. These poems are clear-eyed and moving. The 55 poems in Crossroads describe people and events Hamblin remembers from his boyhood days at Brice's Cross Roads, a Northeast Mississippi rural community best known as the site of a famous Civil War battle.