<p>The poems in<em>Hummingbird Sleep</em> move associatively between Coleman Barks&#39;s personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. A discussion of Plotinus, Barks&#39;s appearance on PBS <em>NewsHour</em>, a note Keats once left on Wordsworth&#39;s mantelpiece, a splinter in the heel, and a quote from the Upanishads-all make their way into Barks&#39;s most recent poems, which achieve intimacy and expansiveness at the same time.</p>