National LubeRyan Skrabalak 'Here is a generous and tender poetic, a new American pastoral full of that particular heartbreaking tenderness of closely perceived things, peopled with loves, with lusts, with public spaces, skunk cabbages and parking lots, motels, interstates, and fraught with a certain unease; what language, or place, can and cannot hold amidst the slippage and the distances. The erotic, the natural, the secular divine and the stuff of a lived life