Steven Cramer's Where Thoughts Come From: New and Selected Poems brings together work from eight collections written over four decades. From his debut volume published in 1987 to the two sections of new poems that frame the selections from his books, the depth of his persistent concerns and his stylistic edginess create a lively tension. Again and again, the poetry returns to memory, grief, desire, family, illness both bodily and mental, tenderness, and consciousness itself-asking how these forces shape perception-yet each new book employs fresh forms to ask these questions, the poems continually deepening and complicating.