California Redemption Value (Contemporary Poetry (Uno Press))

"The lyric missives that make up this collection are poems of place as substantive as beach sand or the crackle of gun fire.  I see Opstedal in an old car in a palm-lined beach parking lot in a gray mist south of Point Dume listening to an eight-track of rare surf music and writing it all down; "The Poems" tattooed on one bicep" -Lewis Macadams