In this second collection, poet John Stiles expands his lexiconand his horizons. Chronicling travels from Canada's east coast to Toronto's self-obsessed urban core, and onward, he follows his life's love to the stunning natural beauty and local enchantments of the Brazilian countryside, and ultimately rediscovers his family's roots in England. These poems resonate with profound ideas and offbeat observations on people and place, on the variables that combine to create a person's identity, and what it means to leave, to seek, and, finally, to find a home. Alive with Stiles's distinct linguistic charms and poetic good nature, 'Creamsicle Stick Shiv' is a book of subtle inventiveness and obvious roguish delight.