"Attentive to the human being's subjectivity interacting with the physical world's materiality, this poet's perspectives are local and global. The work unites hemispheres of earth and brain as it incorporates a wondering mind in a wandering body. How do we impose our will on the physical world? How do we acclimate to variable conditions? Regarding the movement of human consciousness in space and time, an implicit focus of the poet's attention is the always-shifting interplay of subjects and objects as groups and individuals respond to changing environments: gentrifying neighborhoods, travel destinations, seasonal variations, the anthropogenically altered earth. -Harryette Mullen, from the Introduction"--