Veil On, Veil Off is a brand new book of poems from the highly acclaimed and deeply underground poet John Marcus Powell. The narrative is rife with languid detour, the subject often scandalous, and the language inflected with the sort of eccentrically personal rigor that can never be counterfeited. For those not averse to the occasional dive into murky waters, the realms below are cool and clear with the welcome sting of sobriety after an equally welcome debauch. To all potential readers, and they should be legion, I say: "Drink up, boys and girls! This is how it is done!