With Anania's familiar, quick movement from perception to the precise but often kinetic image and his extraordinary musicality, Continuous Showings explores a wide range of continuities, from the persistence of tribal culture and language in Mexico to the experience of a fifties movie with Sinatra and Doris Day, from Newton's alchemical encounter with the New World to the coincidence of science and Dadaism in Paris in 1922, from lute music to jazz. The collection's final section, the award-winning "Omaha Appendices," returns to the setting of Anania's early poetry and fiction to examine the tragicomedy of Italian-Ameurican life in the Midwest.