Poetry pieced together to theorize the roiled character of life on the road, Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry 1998-2008, is a testament to the personal upholding of distraught freedom and self-sacrifice, love and falsehood, misplacement and rebirth. This rugged presentation of road poetry expresses the loss and reemergence of honesty, generalities of defiance, innate fragility, heroic weakness, unmitigated arrogance, brazen, uncouth behavior, utmost kindness, inscrutable duality of the attraction of opposites, and the mushy struggle for self-betterment. With wit, humor, truculence, and adrenaline, Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel takes readers on arid avenues to self-renewal, to remote paths of sentimental victory, open skies to freedom, and to a world full of mystery, sojourns of suspense, and the mercurial fluidity of fresh oil and loose gravel.