The American Idlers is a collection of 67 poems that explore the fragile and fleeting moments of two young lovers as their relationship and intimacy gets punctuated by political tension, disillusionment, and the invisible hand of freedom. As the two lovers idle, they glimpse an America full of zealots, soldiers, sluts, salesmen, suicide, and self-determination. In their chaotic and multi-voiced vision of freedom, the two lovers discover the present tense pregnant with possibilities and, in that brief moment, they see the world for what it is: infinite.