"trilogy" consists of 3 sets of 13 poems: 1) WINTER JOURNEY 2) SONG OF DESTRUCTION 3) DANCE OF FIRE. Of the poems Lindley Williams Hubbell says in the introduction: "Her poetry is at once imagistic and abstract....Yoko Danno gives us direct treatment of the subject herself....Yoko Danno's images are autonomous. They are like Marianne Moor's real toads in imaginary gardens." "Hagoromo: A Celestial Robe" is a narrative poem "based on the same myth as the Noh play of the celestial maiden who has her robe of feathers stolen-though in the case of the version Miss Danno uses, the celestial maiden...

Respiration, breath, touch, breeze, influx, infusion, nearness, the closeness of words-these, and much more, form poet Yoko Danno's native language. What you hear is right here beside you, where you are watching and catching waves to shores both strange and familiar, floating in waters on a current of togetherness, buoyant and shared in an atmosphere overflowing with beginnings, with words that, heated by imagination's mirrors, spread and flourish into shapes of desire. --Alan Botsford, Poet and Editor of Poetry Kanto