ROBIN MAGOWAN is the author of "America, America" (Abbeville, 1999), "Memoirs of a Minotaur" (Story Line, 1999), "Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral: Poems" (South Carolina, 1998), "Tour de France "(Velo, 1996), and "Fabled Cities of Central Asia: Samarkand, Bukahra, Khiva" (Abbeville, 1990). He is also the translator of Henri Michaux's Ecuador, published in 2001 by Northwestern University Press. He lives in Salisbury, Connecticut.