Sugartown: Poems

That the sun stands apart

from all that it abuts,

unwilling to judge it,

may be our only real hope.

—from "We Either Do or Don't,

But the Problem Evolves Anyway"

In Sugartown, David Rivard's fourth collection, the poems unwind with the speed of urgent talk, detailing with mischievous humor and fierce candor the catch-a...