More than a simple collection, 5 by Five consists of twenty-five carefully placed poems -- five poems by five poets. Arranged in progressive cycles, the individual poems gather momentum as they navigate the confines of experience, touching on matters of love, loss, language, and time. An exuberant mix of styles and forms, moods and settings, the poems brought together here benefit from the company they keep. The distinct voices of these five poets play off one another surprisingly well and, ultimately, achieve a strange kind of unison.