The commingling of poetry and smoke

Poet and essaysist John Olson reviews The Recumbant Galaxy by George Kalamaras (pictured) and Alvaro Cordona-Hine on Tillalala Chronicle:

The Recumbent Galaxy is, quite literally, two books in one. It is the product of two authors, Alvaro Cardona-Hine and George Kalamaras. It is a collaborative work, though not in the sense that two minds melded together on a single work. The two authors are bound by mutual interests, mutual aesthetics. They are like two neighbors living in a city called Vallejo. Their houses are similar, but not entirely alike. Each helped one another build their house, taking ideas from one and incorporating it into the other, so that the give-and-take of collaboration created two unique dwellings rather than a single dwelling . . .