"...Ron Overton's poems celebrate what is lost and what is found in the neon rainbowed urban/suburban world of late twentieth century America, life as advertised and life as really lived, life as the soft soap and the hard sell, "life of no deposit/and many happy returns," "the Shutout of Nothingness/ the Empty & Abandoned Stadium of our Dreams," the rootless suburbs' 7-Eleven's & the homeless big city's "eye level" accidents, restless America on the move. In these widly comic out-takes of the American dream, immediacy is everwhere medated by pop culture, the media's middlemen, its "global village explainers," its "specialists of grief" promising to give back to us what we have lost-"the ability to feel." With his sharp eye and delicate jazz-inflected ear Ron Overton sings of the fading icons of America's childhood- "Stardust," "Moon over Miami," Tarzan, Tom & Jerry, Captain Video, Haystack Calhoun, Billie Holiday, Bart Starr, the lonely end and the private eye-little elegies to the "once in a lifetime" miracle of chance encounters," the mystery of misplaced years, " the faint pathos of everyday life in thetwilight of the American century." - L.S. Asekoff.