In this collection of poetry, Charles Noble further reins in an already tight form, haiku, only to let loose a ""logopoeic"" poetry. He presents poems of extraordinary rigour and riddles of wit that are solved by ""lifetime"" insights, a dialectical poetry that still observes a phenomenological toehold but transcends the limits of locality in recognizing the curled- up-but-everywhere world of media and markets - la Fredric Jameson. And yet, these haikus go straight to the shock of the naive.