Unopened, an intriguing volume of previously published and unpublished poetry, is Doug Hoekstra’s latest and third book. Among its fifty-seven selections, the reader will find poems that rhyme, poems that don’t, prose poems, sedokas, and yes, even an obligatory sonnet. Some are personal; some are societal. Some look inward, some look outward. Throughout the reader is invited to connect and reflect. Unopened is divided into three selections to allow the works to cross-pollinate and the reader to choose his or her adventure -- “On the Page” (themes close to home), “Off the Canvas” (out in to the world), and “Between the Notes” (the space between, the indefinable). Hoekstra’s introduction sets the tone for this journey, but the reader sets the course. Unopened also features Hoekstra’s original artwork on the front and back covers, taken from a series of collages created to reflect the content of the book. As he says in the afterword, the art and prose both reveal themselves “as a collection of fragments—memory, imagination, anticipation—broken, reassembled, and made whole.”