This is a compact book and because of its size could be easily dismissed, but I warn you, don't. There are three artists involved. I ran through the initial entry by the Greek (French?) poet Alek Lindus and in subsequent readings of her words I began to see things I hadn't seen the first time through. That is usually a pretty good sign that the reader might be on to something. I could have easily tossed the little book aside but decided against it because I know better. It has a beautiful cover and prose written by Brandon Hobson, a writer I am not familiar at all with. I noticed there aren't all the pretentious and fancy words common in other contemporary work I see these days. There are no tricks. He simply writes. But I will have to return here to add comments later on this sparse simplicity. As for Renner, he is a poet of the first rank who goes by the name of Cooper Esteban. He has been producing other media besides poetry and publishing it under his "real" name. Renner has been drawing for some time now and obviously his practice is going somewhere. The drawings in the last piece are fine but I complain the print a bit too tiny for my old eyes and I will need an eyeglass to help me read it thoroughly. But all in all this new Triple series brought out by Ravenna Press looks great, and it is nice to see writers have a quality publishing house in which to place their work. If this book is any indication, I am looking forward to seeing Triple 2, and all the issues to follow. ( )