Thanks for another unusually insightful review. That Berger quote, "life itself is only a spectacle", really nailed it. (If only I lived near a companionable little book store where the books you reviewed all lived near fireplace and fresh coffee. Hollywood eschatolologists have the world ending in a couple of years...but there is maybe still enough time.) Brower's cover photograph also offers a way into that world. It's recognizably a building, but on closer study it doesn't quite make sense. From the poems and the quotes you selected, it seems that the speaker, whether sitting on floor, box or chair (or even sitting in a tree across the street) is a little tired of trying to wrest sense from everything, and instead compels the narrative, the story, to be recognized as more than only a spectacle. If that makes any sense.