"Often, Common, Some, And Free is a book about transformation. Moving across varied formal and aesthetic terrain, these poems take on the subject of literal change: constructing and tearing down physical buildings, roaming between cities, and drawing together an image of a world in flux. The speaker is in movement: walking, flying, swimming, taking the train, while also constantly twisting in his sentences, turning into different versions of himself, and braiding his voice with others. These poems are interested in subjects that encompass creation and loss from Robert Moses to the Gardner Museum robbery, but they aim ultimately to resist destruction, to be in the particular, and to hold still their world and their ever-shifting speaker"--