"It would be enough were Peter Ludwin's A Guest in All Your Houses merely a sensual, spiritual geography of the human heart. But so much more, this breathtaking first collection of poems is an opulent, operatic score of the American West. These are poems filled with deep experience, bold imagery and reverent observation. Music and soul abound on every page, as in these lines from 'Midnight, Steens Mountain:' 'This hour/the hawk's own vespers/feeds on the unsuspecting.//Fingers the shiny mandolin/dangling from its belt of stars.'" -Lana Hechtman Ayers, author, Publisher of Concrete Wolf Chapbook Series