Offering the chance to run away and join a project of great originality and distinctiveness, this collection of poetry is stocked with colorful personalities who earn their living under the big top—from clowns and acrobats to tightrope walkers and lion tamers. Recreating the drama of the center ring with enough peek-behind-the-curtain moments to ground this secret society in the nitty-gritty of marriage, parenthood, old age, and death, this anthology is a high-wire act in itself, putting on a show to be marveled over—carefully choreographed, death-defying, full-tumble, and exceptionally daring.