Amazon.com description: Product Description: A rare publication of the work of the reclusive (young) master, Peter Culley, The Climax Forest includes the complete works "Gtterdmmerung", "Winterreise", "Gothic" (a collaboration with visual artist Sara Leydon), and a generous sampling from "Hammertown", Culley's long workinprogress about his hometown of Nanaimo. "Tristram Shandy on codeine, / Dorothy Wordsworth on demerol, / Cary Grant on acid" (from "Der Hirt Auf Dem Felsen"), Culley's only previous work is the longoutofprint TwentyOne, published long ago to much acclaim when the poet was a mere 21. He lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, where he writes program notes for the Vancouver International Film Festival program.