“In Ragged Eden by Michael Meyerhofer, I find what I look for in poetry: the daily made strange, the dark illuminated, the disordered given shape. These poems transform. They restore. They sing. All at once, intensely modern and classic.” –Paul Guest, Because Everything is Terrible “In these brilliant poems, Michael Meyerhofer explores the complex and crazy world you and I wake up to every day. He writes about superheroes and poverty and death and Carl Jung and parallel universes and dictators and what you can see and hear while sitting in a bar where they’re mourning a dead woman named Lynette. And what makes all of these things jump up and shout is Meyerhofer’s love and curiosity. He’s the poet who wants his eyeballs to always be open, always take in and hug the things most of us are too busy looking for the next Starbucks to see.” –John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues "In Ragged Eden, Michael Meyerhofer takes on the current political climate with his customary good-natured and sly humor. He also draws on the animal kingdom, algebra, and the third law of thermodynamics for inspiration in this edgy but hopeful book reflecting the angst of our times." —Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Field Guide to the End of the World