lphabet of Desire" is a collection of short prose pieces written over the course of 1990. It is not as well executed as the first half of the book. Rather it comes across as a collection of seemingly random journal jottings. It begins intriguingly, with an epilogue, because it is to be a work about transitions and every ending flows into a beginning. He says "I write the start of a new way of life and call it an epilogue. It is what comes after the fall of the curtain and before the prologue that gathers together the strands of another telling" (31). Unfortunately the rest of the pieces don't match up to this start. en Norris has allowed us to publish some of his newest poems in this issue of It's Still Winter. They show him to be still on his quest, still inquiring about his role as a poet, still exploring himself and his world.