Brad Hoge’s first poem, “Gneiss: a translation”  won us over with its layering of geologic and family generations. In Clacking Things Hoge offers up “Medicine Wheel,” “Barber Shop Mirror,” and a host of pensive and beautiful meditations on the natural landscape of the west. But we love him best for his cheekiest piece, “In Critique of ‘The Tiger’ by William Blake,” a giddily annotated gem that tickled the funny bones of the academics, anti-academics, and Blake addicts amongst us.