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These poems chronicle the couple's obsession with food, art, architecture, and each other over an action-packed 12-day roadtrip. I'm following the Vermont food trail\/and am about to pray to a donut, Lupert confesses in At the Cold Hollow Cider Mill. A brilliant, beer-fogged take on America by one of the funniest, smartest poets around.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eps. These poems could also be construed as Lupert's 293 page love letter to his wife. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e-Alexis Rhone Fancher, poetry editor, Cultural Weekly, seven-time Pushcart nominee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvery year I look forward to Rick and Addie's summer vacation. Instead of a slide show or a lousy T-shirt I get another book of poems. What you have in your hands is a travelogue - the newest installment in a series of road books written by Rick Lupert, the minimalist Huell Howser of Van Nuys poetry. 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