Mark Nowak encounters the whispers of creation and cultural remembrance in his eminent, visionary poetry. "Revenants" is an original return to a splendid ethos of ancestral word patterns, and the images bear the solemn pleasures of time, place, and singular landscapes.-Gerald Vizenor This first book length collection of poetry by the editor of the journal "XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics" explores the Polish American neighborhoods in and around Buffalo, New York, finding collective truths in the particularity of a unique culture. Mark Nowak is the editor of Theodore Enslin's selected poems, "Then, and Now, " and an associate professor at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His poems have been anthologized in "An Anthology of New (American) Poets" and "Children of the Cold War: A Scrapbook."