Slide Over Reading and re-reading Ravi Shankar’s new collection was exhilarating. It’s an extraordinary exploration of the possibilities of collaboration. Peter Orner, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Shankar collaborates with both painters and with other contemporary poets by finding the zone and bringing 'new forms of elasticity into being.' Rae Armantrout, Pulitzer Prize winner Quirky, quizzical, inquisitive, by turns lyrical and meditative, Ravi Shankar's poems are guided by a strong intelligence toward resolutions that are both surprising and apt. Gregory Orr, Rockefeller Fellow