With exuberance and economy, Merrill Gilfillan's Undanceable evokes the landscape of the American West through the geographic word. Place names, the texture of speech, and a certain aroma of nature permeate these pages. Ever alert to unforeseen connections, Gilfillan follows both eye and ear, his poems unfolding at the pace of consciousness. Sample Poem: A faint breeze in the old swallow dens. A man mounts a mare. And the roughlegs, maculate riders, imperial boreal tilt and tack, wiser than owls, drift disdainfully south.